Sacramento Indian Community - SacramentoIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 5/1/1977

Janata Party was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/23/1994100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.
4/6/1606Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra.
5/18/1974Jayaprakash Narayan led a procession against economic conditions in Patna. There was lathi charged and he issued a call for total revolution. He also started the 'Citizens for Democracy' movement.
7/5/1997Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president.
1/23/1997Statue of Subhash Bose unveiled inside Parliament House.
2/24/1948The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February.
1/18/1996N. T. Rama Rao, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh (during 1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), passed away at Hydrabad.
9/1/1995Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh.
6/24/1989A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.
8/18/1896Raghupati Sahay ""Firaq Gorakhpuri"", revolutionary Urdu poet, was born. He was honoured with the highest literary awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1960 and Bharatiya Gyanpeeth Award in 1969. His notable works include ""Ruh-e-Kayenaat (Spirit of Universe, 1945)"" and ""Ramz-O-Kinayaat (Suggestion, 1946)"".