Saturday 9 February 2013

Mohammad Afzal Guru was hanged

 
Mohammad Afzal Guru (hanged on  9 February 2013) was found guilty of conspiration in the December 2001 attack on the parliament of India and was sentenced to death by the  Supreme court in 2002. The sentence was scheduled to be carried out on 20 October 2006, but Afzal was given a stay of execution and remained on death row. On 3 February 2013, his mercy petition was rejected by the Indian President. He was hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 06:25am on February 09, 2013. He belongs to Jammu & Kashmir and he was completed his first year MBBS course  and he was preparing for IAS exam.However, he became a member of   Jammu & Kashmir liberation front  where he received terrorist training and became involved in terrorist activities


 

2001 Indian Parliament attack

13 December 2001
 Soldiers protecting parliament from  the attack 
 http://static.ibnlive.com/pix/slideshow/12-2010/parliament-attack-what/par4_630.jpg

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith  was born on 9 February 1897. He is often called by his nickname Smithy, was an early Australian aviator. In 1928, he earned global fame when he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the US to Australia. He died on  8 November 1935.