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Historical Event on 4/9/1993
Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
| 8/2/1891 | Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born. |
| 4/15/1932 | Suresh Shridhar Bhat, famous poet, was born. |
| 3/3/1839 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 7/8/1991 | 25 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan. |
| 2/14/1924 | Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 10/31/1991 | Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
| 6/20/1946 | Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
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