Kentucky Indian Community - KentuckyIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 3/13/1947

Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1919The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad.
8/30/1773Narayan Rao Peshwa was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao, also called Raghoba, who then proclaimed himself the Peshwa.
5/7/195081 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.
1/27/1927Michael Craig, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror), was born in Pune.
9/10/2000Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
10/2/1957All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.