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Historical Event on 7/5/1981
Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/9/1947 | India's agreement with Pakistan on outstanding issues like assets, liabilities, division of sterling balance and military stores, etc. signed. |
1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
10/11/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely. |
1/23/1809 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa. |
2/28/1963 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna. |
12/20/1904 | Virendranarayan Chakravorthy, former Indian Ambassador in England and Governor of Haryana, was born. |
10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
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