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Historical Event on 7/29/1987
India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
8/10/1993 | Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away. |
2/17/1997 | Notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj released from jail after 20 years, and re-arrested soon after release under Foreigners' Regional Registration Act. |
4/3/1984 | Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi. |
11/2/1972 | ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India. |
8/7/1905 | The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta. |
3/27/1898 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of Modern India, passed away at Aligarh. |
6/24/1990 | Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'. |
1/25/1992 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (1904-1993). |
7/27/1927 | Krishna Baldev Vaid, famous story writer and novelist, was born. |
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