In May 2007, the Tamil Nadu Archaeological Department found pots with arrow-head symbols during an excavation in Melaperumpallam near Poompuhar.

* Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu, India

Puhar () ( also known as Poompuhar ) is a town in the Nagapattinam district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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* Evergreen Cemetery – Located on the south side of town, there are over 50, 000 people interred ; it is the home of the infamous tall " Jesus with cowboy boots " statue and grave marker, as well as the resting place of banker / philanthropist William J. McDonald, Confederate General / U. S. Senator Sam Bell Maxey, rancher Pitts Chisum, and cotton magnate John J. Culbertson.

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* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

* 1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist ( d. 1805 )

* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

Early Buddhist and Jaina sources used-to refer to a people of south India ( presumably Tamil );-was a southern non-Aryan country ; -,, and-were used as variants to designate a country in the south (, Kādambarī, Daśakumāracarita -, fourth to seventh centuries CE ) ( 1989: 134 – 138 ).

* 1995 – The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.

* 1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.

* 1898 – Thillaiaadi Valliammai, a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa ( d. 1914 )

* 2009 – Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.

* 2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A. P. J.

* 1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.

* 1991 – 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

* 1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills 8 people and injures 25 others.

* 1924 – Karunanidhi, Indian Politician, 15th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

* 1995 – The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.

* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.

* 1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.

* 1983 – The Sri Lankan Civil War begins with the killing of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Terrorist group.

* 1991 – Mahendran, Tamil actor

* Guerrilla Tactics – How the Tamil Tigers Were Beaten in an ' Unwinnable ' War Article appeared on The Times, 19 May 2009

* 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.