23 May
9 Jeth Nanakshahi
On this day in 1479
Prakash Purab of Guru Amar Das Ji
Birth of the third Guru, Sri Guru Amar Das Ji, at Basarke in 1479.
Also on this day
- 1606Jahangir received false reports on Guru Arjan’s blessing Khusrau
- 1848Maharani Jind Kaur exiled and sent to Banaras prison
- 1914Guru Nanak Jahaz (Koma gata Maru) reached Vancouver port, Canada However, it was forced to return to India.
- 1921Bela Singh and Ganda Singh are arrested and the militant Akali’s conspiracy to murder J.W Bowring, for his part in the Nankana Sahib massacre, ends in a fiasco. A government agent, Sadhu Singh, poised as a straunch Akali supporter working for "Akali" newspaper facilitated their arrest. They were tried under Babbar Akali Conspiracy Case Trail No. 1.