St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia Indian Community - StLouisIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 5/17/1887

Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1992Major changes in Exim policy-farming and repacking included under the definition of 'manufacturer'.
4/6/1934Nilkanth Yashwant Khadilkar, editor of Marathi daily newspaper, was born.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
8/15/1996Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.
11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
9/16/1995Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
8/5/1978Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.