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Historical Event on 05/06/1589
Mian Tansen, a prominent figure of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music and famous singer of Akbar's court, died at Gwalior. Tansen is remembered for his epic Dhrupad compositions, creating several new ragas, as well as for writing two classic books on music Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 3/29/1869 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 5/14/1998 | India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 2/23/1908 | Maharaj Kumar Raghubir Sinh, famous Hindi writer and historian, was born. |
| 5/25/1997 | In a bid to break the deadlock on naming transport corporation after caste leaders in southern districts, Tamil Nadu Government agrees to create a new bus corporation named after Pulithevan. |
| 2/21/1983 | More than 600 people were killed in the Indian state of Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
| 8/12/1868 | Frederick JNT Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of British-India (1916-21), was born. |
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