|
|
Historical Event on 1/8/1993
FERA restrictions removed, resident Indians allowed to keep as much as $500.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1991 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India. |
| 12/1/1999 | Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh. |
| 4/17/1977 | Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party. |
| 5/11/1888 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born. |
| 9/25/1946 | Bishan Singh Giansingh Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79), was born in Amritsar. He received the Arjun Award (1969) and the Padmashree (1970). |
| 9/25/1946 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 6/5/1879 | Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Labour Union Movement in India, was born at Goregaon in the Kolaba district, Maharashtra. |
| 3/14/1997 | Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan. |
| 2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
