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Historical Event on 9/25/1990
Sabyasachi Mukherji, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, aged 63, died in London.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/1/1956 | Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory. |
3/15/1936 | Vasudevrao Apurao Changre, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
11/1/1996 | Michael Jackson show at Andheri sports complex in Mumbai. |
4/14/1905 | Earthquake at Kangra region in Himachal. |
12/4/1919 | Inderkumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India, was born at Jhelum (Pakistan). |
12/21/1974 | Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam. |
7/6/1927 | Vyankatesh Dingambar Madgulkar, great Marathi story writer and novelist, was born. |
5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
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