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Historical Event on 9/3/1995
Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/21/1992 | RBI eases credit policy, lending rates reduced from 6 to 4; 13\% interest ceiling on deposits. |
4/25/2000 | West Bengal police nab Belal alias Lalu Mian, the suspected mastermind behind the hijacking of IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar last December, from a hideout in North 24 Parganas district. |
1/21/1963 | Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi. |
5/1/1987 | The Bofors Deal. |
4/21/1720 | Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a great soldier and General. |
6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
7/22/1993 | R.K. Khandekar, PM's aide, denies Harshad Mehta's charges. |
2/14/1998 | 13 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed. |
4/26/1946 | V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter. |
10/10/1996 | UP polls throw up a hung assembly. |
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