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Historical Event on 11/14/1967
Kanakaiya Nayudu Colonel Cottari , cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), passed away at Indore.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/14/1955 | Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia . |
11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
7/16/1969 | Morarji Desai resigns from cabinet. |
9/1/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
3/24/2000 | Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways. |
9/12/1995 | Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu. |
3/5/1992 | Sunder, comedy actor, passed away. |
1/28/1951 | Kashmir issue taken up in UN security council. |
4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
12/14/1999 | The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction. |
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