1659 - Aurangzeb had his brother Dara executed for trying to overthrow him and get control over the entire empire.
2004 - E. K. Nayanar (Erambala Krishnan Nayanar) died at the age of 85. He was the Chief Minister of Kerala for three times. He is the longest serving Chief Minister of Kerala. He was a member of the Politburo of CPI(M).
1979 - Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi died at the age of 71 in Delhi. He was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar. He received Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan.
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Girish Raghunath Karnad Girish Raghunath Karnad was born on 19th may in the year 1938 at Maharashtra to a Brahmin family.He is a Film director, Actor, Poet, Play Writer. He earned his bachelor degree from Karnataka College Dharwad. Later Karnad went to England and studied at Lincoln and Magdalen college in Oxford as a R... read more |