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Historical Event on 9/4/1997
Madhavrao Scindia, Tariq Anwar, Meira Kumar, Oscar Fernandes and R. R. Dhawan appointed AICC general-secretaries by party president Sitaram Kesri.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 3/15/1983 | Farukh Abdul Latif, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 5/10/1957 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected President of India for a second term. |
| 11/15/1992 | 37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur. |
| 10/15/1997 | Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things' |
| 9/12/1779 | Garibdas, follower of Saint Kabir and founder of 'Garib Panth', died. |
| 9/12/1779 | Taimurlang passed away. |
| 1/20/1997 | Indian Express launches its 18th edition from Belgaum. |
| 1/20/1997 | Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin. |
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