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Historical Event on 3/5/1993
The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/20/2000 | Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State. |
1/30/1911 | Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was born. |
10/19/1907 | Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born. |
1/18/1997 | SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances. |
4/1/1889 | Hindu', English language newspaper changed its perodicity from weekly (20/09/1888) to daily. |
9/25/1993 | Soli Sorabji, 63, nominated as Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Court by UN Secretary General. |
10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
8/7/1934 | Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers. |
5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
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