|
|
Historical Event on 12/8/1994
At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/2000 | Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 12/24/1905 | Sen Triguna, educationist and technologist, was born. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 10/16/1999 | Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). |
| 3/3/1989 | Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant. |
| 12/30/1974 | Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi. |
| 8/2/1959 | Little Theatre was established. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 5/30/1962 | 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad. |
| 4/5/1987 | The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC). |
|
![]()
|
|
|
