San Antonio Indian Community - SanAntonioIndian.net
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 8/17/1986

In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
4/25/1982India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan.
9/20/1878Hindu"", an English weekly in Madras with G. S. Aiyer as its Editor, was first published with only 80 copies.
8/13/1951Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away.
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
2/2/1956The president inaugurated the Bhoodan padyatra led by Dr. Sushila Nayar.
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
11/12/1997India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.
6/13/2000Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.