Wilmington, Dover, Newark Indian Community - DEIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 3/13/1996

Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
2/17/1976Taimurlang passed away.
8/9/1999India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title.
7/31/1988Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
3/30/1919Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
12/12/1996India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water.
3/17/1997Cochin Stock Exchange goes online.