|
|
Historical Event on 2/12/1990
The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 7/3/1975 | Virendrakishor Roy Chaudhary, famous music director, passed away. |
| 2/9/1989 | Sanjay Khan, actor-director, critically injured in a fire accident. |
| 11/19/1962 | Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi. |
| 12/24/1984 | Eigth General Elections of India began . |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
| 1/29/1983 | Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns. |
| 9/3/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster. |
| 8/13/1947 | Riots sweep Lahore in Punjab; mobs stone Gandhi's house. |
| 12/8/1897 | Balkrishna Sharma ""Navin"", famous Hindi poet, was born in Bhyana village of Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh |
|
![]()
|
|
|
