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Events for December 6 

6-December-1732 Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
6-December-1756 British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India.
6-December-1857 Raja Nahar Singh arrested by the Showers to kept him first in Motia Mahal and then at Metcalfe House, Delhi.
6-December-1892 Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai.
6-December-1897 Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born.
6-December-1907 Revolutionaries looted Chingaripota station.
6-December-1929 British Viceroy meets with Indian leaders to discuss dominion status for India.
6-December-1931 Bengal Congress to boycott British goods.
6-December-1946 Anglo-Indian talks end in failure after three days at London.
6-December-1946 Homeguard Organination was established.
6-December-1952 First Indo-Soviet Trade agreement signed.
6-December-1956 Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Babasaheb), great social worker, politician and writer of Indian constitution, passed away in Bombay.
6-December-1962 India closes its consulates in Communist China.
6-December-1971 US bars aid to India for aggression against Pakistan.
6-December-1976 Nana Patil, great revolutionary, passed away.
6-December-1987 MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force.
6-December-1990 VHP-sponsored 'karseva' in Ayodhya passes off peacefully.
6-December-1992 300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition.
6-December-1993 Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away.
6-December-1995 The Sixth Army Ordnance Corps Reunion and Silver Jubilee of Colour Presentation was celebrated at AOC Centre with pomp and splendour, fun and gaiety and professionalism of high order. The highlights included para-dropping, AOC Kangla Tongbi, Sonet-lumiere sound and light show, Central Parade and Yaadgar Parade.
6-December-1995 Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away.
6-December-1997 Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala.
6-December-1997 Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands.
6-December-1998 13th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
6-December-2000 A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, said, ""The Ayodhya agitation was an 'expression of nationalist feelings' and the ""task has remained unfinished.
6-December-2000 Bishop Vinod Peter, National Christian Council of India president and church of North India moderator, and Rajasthan CNI Bishop Gerald Andrews die in a car accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
6-December-2000 The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'.

Events for December 5

5-December-1657 Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India.
5-December-1872 Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.
5-December-1898 Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born.
5-December-1905 Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir.
5-December-1931 Gandhiji leaves England for India.
5-December-1931 Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born.
5-December-1933 Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
5-December-1935 Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born.
5-December-1943 The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port.
5-December-1946 Dada Maharaj Satarkar passed away.
5-December-1950 Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.
5-December-1950 Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
5-December-1951 Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.
5-December-1959 K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away.
5-December-1990 With the induction of 60 ministers, the Bihar Cabinet becomes the largest ever cabinet in India with a total of 71 ministers.
5-December-1991 56 JD MLA's belonging to V.P. Singh faction elect a new leader in UP.
5-December-1991 Sarkaria report accepted.
5-December-1991 The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India.
5-December-1992 Monisha, actress and winner of the 1987 'Urvasi' award for the Malayalam film 'Nakhakshathangal' died at a young age of 21 years.
5-December-1992 V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.
5-December-1993 Congress and MJD regains Mizoram.
5-December-1993 Congress forms its seventh ministry in Madhya Pradesh. Digvijay Singh elected CM.
5-December-1994 V.P.Singh, former PM, resigns from the Parliament.
5-December-1998 Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications.
5-December-1999 India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
5-December-1999 The Union Home Ministry ask Intelligence Bureau (IB) to conduct an inquiry against IB officials in ISRO spy case.
5-December-2000 Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.

Events for December 4

4-December-1661 Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi.
4-December-1796 Bajirao became the second Peshwa.
4-December-1829 Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre.
4-December-1888 Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born.
4-December-1894 Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
4-December-1898 Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu.
4-December-1910 Amar Singh Ladha Nakum, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties), was born at Rajkot.
4-December-1910 Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born.
4-December-1910 Motilal, famous film actor, was born.
4-December-1919 Inderkumar Gujral, former Prime Minister of India, was born at Jhelum (Pakistan).
4-December-1920 Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton), was born in Jhansi, India.
4-December-1924 Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding.
4-December-1940 Khurshid Novrojee, freedom fighter, was arrested for not giving prior intimation to go in tribal area. She had founded Gujarat, Kathiwad and Bombay Presidency ""Women Voluntary""
4-December-1959 Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation.
4-December-1973 Mohan Rakesh, famous modern Hindi dramatist, novelist and story writer, passed away.
4-December-1977 Ajit Agarkar, promising Indian ODI all-rounder, was born.
4-December-1982 Asian Games at Delhi concluded.
4-December-1989 Hardeo Joshi replaces Shiv Charan Mathur as CM of Rajasthan.
4-December-1990 Maharashtra Gomantak Party withdraws support to Goa ministry led by Dr. Luis Proto Barbosa.
4-December-1991 Lok Sabha approves a vital bill seeking to bring sick public sector units within the purview of the BIFR.
4-December-1992 RBI devalues Rupee by 1.18 \% against the US dollar. India emerges overall champions with 10 golds; 8 silver and 14 bronzes in the 4th Asian Junior Athletic meet in New Delhi.
4-December-1993 Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
4-December-1993 Mulayam Singh Yadav, takes over as CM of UP; Bhairon Singh Sekhawat of Congress sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
4-December-1997 Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next.
4-December-1997 World Bank commits to Haryana a loan of $600 millions (about Rs. 2,350 crores) - largest single bank loan to any State.
4-December-1998 Christians across the country observe a protest day against the recent attacks on the community and its institutions.
4-December-1998 Sonia Gandhi said the Congress(I) was prepared to meet the challenge of contesting a mid-term poll if it was forced on the country. But it would not take any initiative to pull down the BJP-led coalition.
4-December-1998 Ilayaraja, nusic composer, selected for the Lata Mangeshkar award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government.
4-December-1999 A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.
4-December-1999 Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor.
4-December-2000 India deports TULF functionary-turned LTTE supporter M.K. Eelavendhan, a Chennai resident for over a decade.

Events for December 3

3-December-1790 Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta.
3-December-1882 Nandalal Bose, great Indian painter and master, was born in Bengal.
3-December-1884 Dr. Rajendra Prasad, first President of India, was born in Jeradei village of Bihar.
3-December-1889 Khudiram Bose, famous revolutionary and freedom fighter of Muzaffarpur Bomb Case, was born at Habibpur village, West Bengal.
3-December-1948 Surendra Pratap Singh, famous journalist and chief editor of Navbharat Times, was born.
3-December-1955 In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union.
3-December-1956 Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
3-December-1970 Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar.
3-December-1971 During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began.
3-December-1971 Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
3-December-1971 India recognises Bangladesh. Indian army marches into Bangladesh and joins hands with Mukti Bahini. Pakistani Army in Bangladesh surrenders to the Indian Commander. I
3-December-1971 Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.
3-December-1971 Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.
3-December-1971 Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared.
3-December-1979 Dhyan Chand, famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
3-December-1984(2nd and 3rd) 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
3-December-1989 Mulayam Singh Yadav named UP CM.
3-December-1991 An all-party delegation from Tamil Nadu led by CM Jayalalita urges the PM to gazette the interim award on Cauvery.
3-December-1991 Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .
3-December-1991 Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan.
3-December-1992 Indian, UN Operations in Mozambique begins (ONUMOZ - Dec 92 to Oct 94)
3-December-1993 Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
3-December-1998 India and Portugal sign an agreement in New Delhi for setting up a joint committee to enhance cooperation in science and technology.
3-December-1998 Maganbhai Kasundra, (50), Gujarat Minister, dies following a heart attack at his residence in Gandhinagar.
3-December-1999 Bhopal gas victims take out rallies to mark the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.

Events for December 2

2-December-1552 Father Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Portuguese Jesuit priest, died. He started his mission by training and employing native clergy in conversion efforts. He spread Christianity to India, Malay Archipelago and Japan.
2-December-1662 Francis Xavier was canonised at Goa.
2-December-1855 Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar, one of the founders of Indian National Congress and social reformer, was born.
2-December-1905 Anant Atmaram Kanekar, modern Marathi poet, author and journalist, was born.
2-December-1911 King George V and Queen Marry visited Bombay, India. The King annulled the partition of Bengal. Delhi was to be made the new capital and the King announced it on 12th December at Delhi Durbur.
2-December-1918 Gurudas Banerjee, famous Law expert and first Indian Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University, died.
2-December-1919 Akhtari Bai was born.
2-December-1937 Manohar Gajanan Joshi was born in Nandvi, Distt. Raigad (Maharashtra).
2-December-1942 Sri Aurbindo Ashram School was inaugurated.
2-December-1947 Dhiraj Devji Parsana, cricket left-arm medium pace and slow spin bowler, was born in Rajkot. He played vs West Indies 1978-79.
2-December-1964 Pope Paul VI greeted by mils.
2-December-1965 Border Security Force came into existence.
2-December-1984 Following the Bhopal Gas disaster on the night of December 2, 1984, the ICMR initiated a series of interdisciplinary investigations on the health of the people with severe, moderate and mild exposure. A Coordinating Unit, which was later re-designated as the Bhopal Gas Disaster Research Centre was established early in 1985 at the Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, to monitor and coordinate the managerial and technical aspects of the various projects.
2-December-1989 Om Prakash Chauthala appointed the new CM of Haryana.
2-December-1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Janta Dal leader, became the seventh Prime Minister of India.
2-December-1991 Balvinder Singh Nigah, an employee of the catering firm 'Chef Air', arrested for planting a bomb in Air India Jumbo 'Emperor Ashoka'.
2-December-1992 Dr. C. Rangarajan appointed Governor of the RBI.
2-December-1993 Madanlal Khurana sworn in as BJP Chief Minister of Delhi.
2-December-1995 The break away Congress Party re-christens itself as All India Indira Congress Committee.
2-December-1996 Dr. M. Chenna Reddy, Tamil Nadu governor, passed away at the age of 78.
2-December-1997 Pramod Tiwari sets national hammer record in South Asian athletic meet in Delhi.
2-December-1998 Prof. S. Sampath (73), former Director of the IIT Chennai and Kanpur, died. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Sathya Sai Institute for Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, during 1991-93. He was appointed member of the Union Public Service Commission in 1977.
2-December-1999 Navjot Singh Sidhu, former Indian opening batsman, announced his decision to retire from international and domestic cricket at a press meet in Chandigarh.
2-December-1999 Nagoor Meeran, former AIADMK Minister, and his wife are sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment in 'disproportionate wealth' case in Tamil Nadu .
2-December-1999 Vishnu Kant Shastri and Ved Prakash Marwah are sworn in Governors of Himachal Pradesh and Manipur respectively.
2-December-2000 The Kerala Cabinet names Karnataka High Court Judge V. P. Mohan Kumar as commissioner to probe Hooch tragedies in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram.
2-December-2000 36 passengers die and 140 suffer injuries after the Amritsar-bound Howrah Mail crashes into the overturned wagons of an Assam-bound train near Jeonpura village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, Punjab.

Events for December 1

1-December-1764 Battle of Anvadi.

1-December-1885 Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.

1-December-1886 Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.

1-December-1894 Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born.

1-December-1900 Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu.

1-December-1911 Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was b

1-December-1921 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail.

1-December-1921 Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab.

1-December-1928 The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta.

1-December-1931 The Second Round Table conference that began in London ended. Congress was solely represented by Gandhi and Muslim League by Sir Allama Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam, etc. Two committees were setup to carry out the work of the conference on Federal Structure and Minorities. Gandhi was the member of both committees. He claimed that being the sole representative of the Congress, he represented the whole of India. Quaid-e-Azam replied that Muslims are a separate nation. Sir Shafi demanded that the 14 points of Quaid-e-Azam be incorporated in future constitution.

1-December-1932 A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London.

1-December-1942 No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel.

1-December-1946 Australia compiled 645 vs India at Gabba. Bradman made 187 runs.

1-December-1947 India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba.

1-December-1951 Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta.

1-December-1955 Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism.

1-December-1960 Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964.

1-December-1963 Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union.

1-December-1964 Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.

1-December-1965 Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.

1-December-1966 Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.

1-December-1970 T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972

1-December-1974 Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away.

1-December-1982 Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games.

1-December-1985 Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.

1-December-1989 A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim.

1-December-1989 Dr. Chenna Reddi (Congress-I) becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh.

1-December-1989 V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.

1-December-1989 National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.

1-December-1990 Vijayalaxmi Pandit, first Indian Lady Ambassador and Politician, passed away at the age of 90 years.

1-December-1991 Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.

1-December-1992 17 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya.

1-December-1993 Tata Steel's Amit Bhaduria win's India's first gold medal in the 10th Asian Track and Field meet in Manila in discus throw.

1-December-1993 World AIDS day.

1-December-1993 Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.

1-December-1994 Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

1-December-1997 At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.

1-December-1998 Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement.

1-December-1998 P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack.

1-December-1999 Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol

1-December-1999 Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.

1-December-2000 An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident.

1-December-2000 There would be a cap of 20 per cent equity for broadcasters planning to operate DTH television services, said I&B minister Sushma Swaraj.

Events for November 30

30-November-1759 Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk.
30-November-1858 Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).
30-November-1896 Gandhiji sails for South Africa with wife and children.
30-November-1909 Gandhiji reaches South Africa.
30-November-1909 Ramesh Chandra died.
30-November-1915 Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died.
30-November-1920 N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born.
30-November-1974 India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban.
30-November-1982 World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.
30-November-1986 Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
30-November-1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed.
30-November-1989 Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.
30-November-1990 Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
30-November-1994 Laxmi Menon, former Foreign state minister, died.
30-November-1994 Mrinalini Desai, freedom fighter and famous litterateur, died.
30-November-1995 G. Umapati, filmmaker, died.
30-November-1998 Ghasiram Yadav (74), member of Parliament representing Alawar in Rajasthan and former MLA and Minister in the State, died in Jaipur.
30-November-1998 Sonia Gandhi names Ashok Ghelot and Sheila Dixit as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Delhi respectively.
30-November-1999 Prof. M. N. Sromovas, (83), well-known Sociologist in Bangalore, died.
30-November-1999 The disinvestment panel headed by G. V. Ramakrishna demits office after the end of its three-year term.
30-November-2000 Jagdev Singh Talwandi, a former Akali Dal leader, was the unanimous choice as the new SGPC president.
30-November-2000 CBI files fresh cases against JMM MPs Shibu Soren, Simon Marandi and Suraj Mandal on charges of possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
30-November-2000 Dr. Anil Kakodkar takes charge as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.

Events for November 29

29-November-1644 The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
29-November-1798 Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France.
29-November-1869 Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.
29-November-1916 Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
29-November-1926 Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
29-November-1928 Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away.
29-November-1945 Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended.
29-November-1947 The Nizam of Hyderabad said that he would not consider acceding to either dominion, but would agree to a 'standstill arrangement' with India. The agreement is accepted by the Indian government.
29-November-1948 Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
29-November-1952 First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.
29-November-1953 Bahuriya Ramswarup Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar, passed away. She will be always remembered for Chapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River.
29-November-1953 Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
29-November-1959 Govind Sakharam Serdesai, Jagirdar Raobahadur, passed away.
29-November-1961 First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
29-November-1962 Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100% villages.
29-November-1988 Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support.
29-November-1989 Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
29-November-1989 Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party.
29-November-1991 Industrial and bank strike called by the left-oriented trade unions to oppose the new industrial and economic policies.
29-November-1991 Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath vs Australia at Gabba.
29-November-1993 Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata ""J.R.D. Tata"", Bharat Ratna awardee, Father of Modern Indian Industries and founder of Indian Aviation industry, passed away at 89 in Geneva, Switzerland.
29-November-1994 M.H. Kania, former Chief Justice of India made Chairman of the 14th Law Commission.
29-November-1996 Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR.
29-November-1996 The Indian Journal of Medical Research brought out special issues, as part of the 85th year celebrations of ICMR, on Nutrition Research (November 1995) and Diarrhoeal Diseases (July, 1996). The ICMR Bulletin also brought out special issues on such topics as Nutrition, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Tribal Health, etc. so as to coincide with the theme selected for a particular month as part of the celebrations. As part of the global theme initiative coordinated by JAMA, USA, the January 1996 issue of the ICMR was devoted to 'Emerging and Re-emerging Infections'.
29-November-1999 Delhi HC dismisses the CBI plea against Jain brothers in Hawala case.
29-November-2000 India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.

 

Events for November 28 

28-November-1704 Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born.
28-November-1890 Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule died. He led a selfless life devoted to the upliftment of the lower classes of the Hindu society. He also started school for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables. He was assissted in education field by his wide Savitri Bai.
28-November-1945 Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta.
28-November-1956 Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India.
28-November-1962 K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.
28-November-1967 Pandurang Mahadev Bapat ""Senapati Bapat"", revolutionary and social reformer, passed away at the age of 89. He led the famous ""Mulshi Satyagraha"" and played a significant role in the struggle for Samyukta Maharashtra and took part in Goa liberation movement.
28November-1990 President's rule imposed in Assam. Assembly kept in suspended animation. United Liberation Front of Assam and National Socialist Council of Nagaland banned.
28-November-1990 Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.
28-November-1993 JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva.
28-November-1997 Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office.
28-November-1998 The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
28-November-1999 Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
28-November-1999 The Vajpayee Government seeks support on major economic issues during the winter session at Parliament.
28-November-2000 Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi. 

 

Events for November 27 

27-November-1001 Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
27-November-1778 Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a balloon. 27-November-1870 Dattatreya Balwant Parasnis, famous history researcher and collector of historical items, was born.
27-November-1881 Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.
27-November-1888 Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda.
27-November-1907 Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. 27-November-1920 Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra. 27-November-1935 Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs), was born in Delhi.
27-November-1946 London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. 27-November-1962 Britain agreed to supply arms to India.
27-November-1972 Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
27-November-1976 Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away.
27-November-1984 Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.
27-November-1992 Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg.
27-November-1993 Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta.
27-November-1994 D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away.
27-November-1994 Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away.
27-November-1998 India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
27-November-1999 Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor.
27-November-1999 BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. 27-November-1999 BJP suspends former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh from the primary membership of the Party for defying Mr. Vajpayee.
27-November-2000 After three decades, English was again made compulsory in Gujarat schools from Standard V from the next academic year.
27-November-2000 Supreme Court grants bail to four AIADMK men accused in the 2nd February Dharmapuri bus burning incident.

Events for November 26 

26-November-1870 Dr. Hari Singh Gour, famous law expert, social reformer, writer, jurist, leader and educationist, was born near Saugar.
26-November-1890 Prof. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee was born. He was a renowned literary expert. 26-November-1890 Satyabodh Balkrishna Hudlikar, author and educationist, was born at Dharwar (Mysore).
26-November-1924 Jasubhai Motibhai Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959), was born in Ahmedabad.
26-November-1931 Gandhi announces a new civil disobedience campaign in the nationalist newspaper 'Young India'.
26-November-1949 India has a parliamentary system of government with certain similarities to the US system. There are two houses - a lower house known as Lok Sabha (House of People) and an upper house known as the Rajya Sabha (Council of States). The Lok Sabha has 544 members (excluding the speaker) and the Rajya Sabha has 245 members. Election for the Lok Sabha is held every five years, unless the government calls an election earlier. All Indians over the age of 18 have the right to vote. The Lok Sabha can be dissolved but the Rajya Sabha cannot. There are also state governments with legislative assemblies known as Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad. The two national houses and the various state houses elect the Indian President, who is a figure head, but the Prime minister wields the real power.
26-November-1949 New Constitution of India adopted and signed. The constitution of India was framed by a Constituent Assembly set up under the Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946. The Assembly held its first meeting on December 9, 1946 and elected Dr.Rajendra Prasad as its Chairman.
26-November-1949 Newspaper Day.
26-November-1949 The Constitution is preceded by a preamble which outlines its aim and objectives. It reads as ""We, the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular. Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens JUSTICE: social, economical and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity and to promote among them all; FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the nation.
26-November-1949 The constitution of India was framed by a Constituent Assembly set up under the Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946. The Assembly held its first meeting on December 9, 1946 and elected Dr. Rajendra Prasad as its Chairman. The Constitution was prepared by the Drafting commission under the chairmanship of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and was finally adopted on November 26, 1949. Framers of the constitution borrowed ideas from the Constitution of UK, USA, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Germany and other countries.
26-November-1954 The Atomic Energy Commission starts functioning.
26-November-1960 First S.T.D. system of telephone (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) services started between Lucknow and Kanpur in India.
26-November-1978 Shaukat Ali, great freedom fighter and nationalist Muslim politician, passed away.
26-November-1989 Anti-Congress wave in North; South India favours Congress.
26-November-1989 General Election ( 9th) of India ends: Congress loses; V.P. Singh becomes Prime Minister.
26-November-1989 India to have a coalition govt. after the governing Congress party has its majority wiped out in general elections.
26-November-1991 Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu released by Sikh militants after 48 days in captivity.
26-November-1992 A government bill to curb new medical colleges introduced in Parliament. 26-November-1995 Kotyya Pragda, freedom fighter and Rajya Sabha member, passed away. 26-November-1997 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, scientific advisor to Defence Minister, chosen for Bharat Ratna.
26-November-1998 Savjibhai Korat (45), senior BJP leader and Gujarat Minister, dies in hospital due of brain haemorrhage.
26-November-1998 Krishan Kant, Vice-President, presents the ""Honest Man of the Year'' award to Atal Behari Vajpayee in New Delhi. The award was instituted by the International Social Service Organisation.
26-November-1999 A city court acquits former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
26-November-1999 SPG cover for the Congress(I) president Sonia Gandhi and her two children to continue.
26-November-1999 The Government plans to set up a judicial commission, says Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee.
26-November-2000 Benefits of globalisation must filter down to the common people, says Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and reiterates 'resistance to reforms will be overcome.'' 26-November-2000 Police nab Chandradas alias Manichan, one of the prime accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy case, at Nagercoil.

Events for November 25 

25-November-1538 Turkish Armada retired.The arrival of a new Portuguese fleet. 25-November-1866 Allahabad court was established for Uttar Pradesh territory, it sat in Agra with five Judges between 1866 and 1868. It also has a bench in Lucknow. 

25-November-1879 Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. 25-November-1890 Radheshyam, famous stage, film actor and director, was born. 25-November-1948 National Cadet Corps was first established. 

25-November-1956 Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians. 

25-November-1962 Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away. 

25-November-1975 Chandulal Shah, film maker, passed away. 

25-November-1977 John Lobo became the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/79). 25-November-1984 Yashwantrao B. Chavhan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Deputy Prime Minister, passed away. 

25-November-1987 India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24. 25-November-1990 Sri Lanka all out at 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17.5 overs. 25-November-1990 R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, passed away. 25-November-1992 Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM. 

25-November-1993 National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, celebrated its platinum jubilee in 1993 by organizing several scientific activities throughout the year, culminating in the International Symposium on Nutrition during November 25-27, 1993. 

25-November-1995 Namibian PM Hoge S. Geingob arrives in New Delhi. 

25-November-1995 The four-states of Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh proposes trade bloc for western States (Western Regional Cooperation). 

25-November-1997 Election Commission de-recognises Janata Party and Congress (Tiwari) as national parties and de-recognises Pattali Makkal Katchi in Tamil Nadu, J & K Panthers Party and J & K People's Conference in Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Congress (Socialist) in Kerala and Manipur and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu. Pattali Makkal Katchi will continue to be recognised as State party in Pondicherry. 

25-November-1998 Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era. 25-November-1998 Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways. 25-November-1999 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. 

25-November-1999 Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize. 

25-November-1999 Madras HC sets aside Tamil Nadu Governor Fathima Beevi's order rejecting the mercy petitions of four accused in Rajiv Gandhi case. 

25-November-2000 Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments agree on a ""unified command'' for the STF operations against Veerappan. 

Events for November 24 

24-November-1881 Ram Rachhpal, son of Sukhi Ram, called 'Chhotu', freedom fighter, politician and leader, was born in a 'Jat' famlily in a small village Garhi Sampla in Rohpak district. His life was a saga of sincere and ceaseless striving to improve the condition of the poor peasants in India, popularly known as 'Deenbandhu'.

24-November-1899 Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District.

24-November-1919 Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.

24-November-1924 Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born.

24-November-1926 Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.

24-November-1930 Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra.

24-November-1932 The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything.

24-November-1941 Attack on Pearl Harbour.

24-November-1941 Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar.

24-November-1948 Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (Two Tests for India 1969), was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

24-November-1952 Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda. 24-November-1963 Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away. 24-November-1969 Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab.

24-November-1973 E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94.

24-November-1988 Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member.

24-November-1989 Tendulkar scores a record cricket test 50 aged 16 years 214 days.

24-November-1991 Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.

24-November-1992 It was decided that Lok Sabha session would start with the national song ""Vande Mataram"" and end with National Anthem ""Jana Gana Mana"".

24-November-1992 Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.

24-November-1992 Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General.

24-November-1997 Leander-Mahesh stumble at the final step, finish second in the World doubles tennis championships at Hartford.

24-November-1998 Polling is held in 626 assembly constituencies spread over four States - Delhi, Madhya Prades, Mizoram and Rajasthan.

24-November-1999 India finish with 10 gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals in the Commonwealth shooting championship which ended in Auckland. 24-November-1999 The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off.

Events for November 23 

23-November-1897 Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.

23-November-1900 Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.

23-November-1908 Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli. 23-November-1919 The first Khilafat Conference was held. Maulvi Fazal-ul-Haq in his presidential address emphasized on enlisting the support of non-Muslims. Gandhi announced to join hands with the Muslims.

23-November-1926 Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.

23-November-1926 Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.á

23-November-1933 Rajan Mehra, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1986-87, was born at Delhi.

23-November-1937 Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Plants.

23-November-1946 Kailasham Tyagraj Paramshiv, famous Kannada dramatist, passed away. 23-November-1948 The beseiged garrison of Punch was relieved a full year after its siege. This meant that a firm grip had been established all the way from Pathankot on the major portions of this province.

23-November-1983 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.

23-November-1990 Madhavrao Ganesh (Balasaheb Dixit), founder of daily news paper ""Turun Bharat"", passed away.

23-November-1991 Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule.

23-November-1991 India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics.

23-November-1993 'The Bullshit'', a Turkish film, wins the Golden Elephant award at the 8th International Childrens film festival in Udaipur.

23-November-1994 100 killed in a stampede of Govari Samaj people during a protest march towards Nagpur Assembly.

23-November-1997 Nirad C.Chaudhuri, famous author, completed 100 years of his life. 23-November-1999 Vinod Chandra Pandey takes over as the Governor of Bihar.

Events for November 22

22-November-1718 Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain. 22-November-1773 Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48. 22-November-1872 Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. 22-November-1873 Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. 22-November-1899 Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Tentuliguma village, Koraput district. 

22-November-1913 Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born. 

22-November-1915 Mohandas Gandhi returns to India. 

22-November-1916 Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. 

22-November-1928 British King George confined to bed with congested lung; Queen to take over duties. 

22-November-1967 Tara Singh, freedom fighter, Akali Dal leader master and politician, died at Amritsar. 

22-November-1968 Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. 

22-November-1971 Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days. 

22-November-1988 Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. 

22-November-1989 General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states. 

22-November-1989 Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away. 

22-November-1990 Laloo Prasad Yadav, Bihar CM, wins confidence motion (202-108). 22-November-1991 Supreme Court declares Karnataka's ordinance on Cauvery water dispute as unconstitutional. 

22-November-1993 Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna. 

22-November-1997 Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. 

22-November-1997 Diana Hayden, 24-year-old Mumbai-born Miss India, beat 85 contestants from around the world to be crowned new 'Miss Universe' at Mahe in Seychelles. 

22-November-1999 V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh. 

22-November-1999 A.B.Vajpayee, Prime Minister, expands cabinet as four more ministers join the ministry including Arun Shourie. 

22-November-2000 Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities. 

Events for November 21

21-November-1517 Ibrahim Lodi (1517-26) succeeded the throne of Delhi, after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. 

21-November-1899 Harekrushna Mahtab, freedom fighter, politician, industrialist and writer, was born at Agarpara district Balasore, Orissa. 

21-November-1914 Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka. 

21-November-1921 Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike. 21-November-1947 First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General. 

21-November-1961 Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasefire. 

21-November-1962 India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. 

21-November-1963 First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme. 

 21-November-1969 Bhilai Steel Plant creates a new world record in steel-making by producing 'one heat' in four hours three minutes. 

21-November-1970 Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure. 

21-November-1971 Rebellion in East Pakistan (formerly Bengal). Ten million Bengalis flee to India. Indo-Pak border clashes escalate to war. India defeats West Pakistan. E. Pakistan becomes independent Bangladesh. 21-November-1973 Seth Govinddas, M.P. of Jabalpur, was honoured in the Central Hall of Parliament for completion of 50 years in Parliament, which was an unprecedented record. 21-November-1985 Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), passed away. 21-November-1991 An Inter Governmental Coference on Youth Tourism, held for first time, was hosted by the Government of India under the aegis of the World Tourism Organisation. (18-11-91). 21-November-1991 R. Nagarajan, former Tamil Nadu Home Secretary, arrested for harbouring LTTE militants. 

21-November-1992 27 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam. 

21-November-1993 R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries. 21-November-1993 India and South Africa sign a historic pact on re-establishing diplomatic and consular relations after a gap of 50 years. 

21-November-1994 Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah, 84, noted economist and educationist, died. 

21-November-1998 India 'B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo. 

21-November-1999 The Centre retired two members of the Prasar Bharati Board, Ms. Romila Thapar, eminent historian and Mr. Rajendra Yadav. 

Events for November 20 

20-November-1572 Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration.

20-November-1760 Phattesingh Bhosle passed away.

20-November-1859 Elfinstone, Governor of Bombay Province and historian, passed away. 20-November-1888 Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. 20-November-1902 Gandhiji returned to South Africa at the request of the Indian community and revived the Indians against Anti-Asian Laws.

20-November-1907 Railroad workers strike in India.

20-November-1917 J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.

20-November-1917 Ram Gopal, great Indies /English classical dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain), was born.

20-November-1930 With all the pageantry of the British Empire, a conference of Indian and British leaders had been convened in London to discuss dominion status for India. Surrounded by Maharajahs in turbans, King George V convened the round table conference in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Notably absent was Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the nationalist movement. The conference saw a breakdown of the Indian caste system as Brahmins dealt with spokesmen for ""untouchables"".

20-November-1942 Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26.

20-November-1946 Gandhiji starts tour without party.

20-November-1947 Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi. 20-November-1955 Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand.

20-November-1955 Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test double century, 223 vs NZ. 20-November-1967 First Indian made Sounding Rocket 'Rohini RH75' launched into space from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station.

20-November-1969 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.

20-November-1969 The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings.

20-November-1981 Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.

20-November-1989 Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. 20-November-1990 Mulayam Singh Yadav's JD (S) ministry wins a confidence motion (224-146) with the help of Congress (I) in Uttar Pradesh.

20-November-1990 Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order.

20-November-1993 RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd.

20-November-1997 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrives in New Delhi. India and Palestinian national authority take stock of stalled West Asia peace process. Two sides sign first umbrella Memorandum of Understanding.

20-November-1998 Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.

20-November-1998 V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai.

20-November-1999 P.G.S. Mony, Indian scientist, is honoured by the French Government. 20-November-1999 Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, senior journalist `Cho' Ramaswamy, eminent jurist Fali S. Nariman and veteran RSS leader Nanaji Deshmukh nominated to the Rajya Sabha. 20-November-1999 World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. 

Events for November 19 

19-November-1838. Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj.

19-November-1877. Jatindranath Benarjee, revolutionary of Indian freedom movement, was born. 19-November-1910. Gohar alias Gohar A. Kayoum Mamajiwala was born at Lahore. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Fortune & Fools' (1925). Other films were 'Lanka Ni Laadi', 'Handsome', 'Briefless Barrister', 'Thief of Delhi', 'Punjab Mail', 'My Darling' and 'The Web'.

19-November-1917. Indira (Pridarshani) Gandhi, the first Indian Lady Prime Minister, was born at Allahabad. She was the only child of Jawharlal Nehru and took active participation in freedom fight by forming ""Vanar Sena"" (a team of young detectives). She lead India in a successful war against Pakistan to seperate East and West Pakistans and established the nation of Bangladesh. 19-November-1924. Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab. 19-November-1961 World Council of Churches convened their third assembly at New Delhi during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group.

19-November-1962. Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi. 19November-1970. Bhupinder Singh Jr, cricketer (Punjab & Indian ODI batsman), was born. 19-November-1975. Sushmita Sen, former Miss Universe and film actress, was born. 19-November-1977. Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000.

19-November-1978. Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.

19-November-1982. 9th Asian Games started in Delhi.

19-November-1985. Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away. 19-November-1991. Two national commissions on women set up.

19-November-1991 Kashinath Anant (Rambhau Joshi), famous editor, passed away. 19-November-1992. M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka. 19-November-1993. Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development awarded to Czech President Vaclav Havel.

19-November-1994. Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.

19-November-1994 Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa.

19-November-1996. Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, passed away at 90.

19-November-1997. 1996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi. 19-November-1997. 22 persons killed and 30 injured when car bomb explodes outside film studio in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. The deceased include Eanadu TV crew of six people. 19-November-1998. Shruti Khanna won her Maiden title on Indian soil in the Northern India Ladies Championship at the Delhi Golf Course.

19-November-1998. A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security.

19-November-1998. The Indira Gandhi memorial award is presented to Mirta Saavedra Polo, Ambassador of Panama, for her contributions to strengthening bilateral relations between India and Pakistan.

19-November-1999. Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus. 19-November-1999. New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

19-November-2000. Indian girls lifts Asian junior title in the inaugural Asian Hockey Federation cup under-18 championship in Hong Kong.

19-November-2000 Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.

19-November-2000. The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress.

Events for November 18

18-November-1727 Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.

18-November-1772 Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him.

18-November-1839 P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur.

18-November-1898 Prabodhchandra Bagchi, researcher of ""Ancient History of India"", was born.

18-November-1901 V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born.

18-November-1911 Free primary school education is introduced.

18-November-1925 Madhukar Gopal Pathak, noted author and film director, was born.

18-November-1936 V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician, prolific writer and leader, died.

18-November-1937 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year.

18-November-1937 Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi.

18-November-1948 Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.

18-November-1955 Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.

18-November-1960 Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away.

18-November-1961 The Navy went into action under the command of Rear Admiral BS Soman, then Flag Officer Commanding, Indian Fleet. The ships conducted their mission in three geographical areas for liberating Goa.

18-November-1964 Dharam Vira was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27-06-1966.

18-November-1972 Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'.

18-November-1973 Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, passed away. She came to India in 1914.

18-November-1974 Telex Service started between India and Pakistan.

18-November-1974 Rajni Pannikar,noted story writer, passed away.

18-November-1978 Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away.

18-November-1988 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.

18-November-1991 In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority.

18-November-1994 Bipinchandra Joshi, cheif of Army and General, passed away at the age of 54 years.

18-November-1997 School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children. 18-November-1997 Puttaveeramma of Ishwatha Ashrama Vidyaranyapuram, Vishveshwara Nagar, Mysore, conferred with the 'Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award 1997' for lifelong exemplary service to poor destitute women, in particular deaf and dumb girl children.

18-November-1997 US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in New Delhi. Ms. Albright said she raised the 'all-important issue of terrorism' with Pakistan's top leadership.

18-November-1999 Sonia Gandhi pleads the President on Nalini's case.

18-November-1999 Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir.

18-November-2000 Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, said there would be no cuts in Income Tax rates in the next budget, and signaled that the reforms process will continue. 

Events for November 17 

17-November-1525 Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt. 17-November-1835 James Todd, researcher and writer of Rajput history, passed away. 17-November-1857 Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow. 

17-November-1915 Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune. 

17-November-1921 Princes of Wales came to India. 

17-November-1925 Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. 

17-November-1928 Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the ""Lion of Punjab"" or ""Punjab Kesari"" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture.

17-November-1932 The Third Round Table Conference began in London. It was not attended by the Congress as the real Indian participation in the making of the constitution was negligible. Since Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it either. This conference ended on 24th November 1932 without achieving anything. 

17-November-1935 Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away.

17-November-1947 Rajendra Prasad elected the President of Indian National Congress. 17-November-1948 Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. 17-November-1953 Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. 

17-November-1966 India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student. 

17-November-1973 Mother Pondicherry, greatest teacher and religious leader, died. 

17-November-1986 SAARC Summit at Bangalore decides to set up permanent secretariat at Kathmandu; India elected new Chairman. 

17-November-1991 Narasimha Rao, PM, wins by-election in Nandyal with a record margin of 5,80,297 votes. 

17-November-1991 Sharad Pawar wins in Baramati. 

17-November-1994 North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. 17-November-1994 Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman. 

17-November-1999 41 more ministers are inducted into the Ram Prakash Gupta Ministry in Uttar Pradesh taking the strength of the ministry to 91. 

17-November-1999 India beats New Zealand by seven wickets to win the one-day cricket series in New Delhi. Saurav Ganguly adjudged the 'man of the match' and 'man of the series'. 

Events for November 16 

16-November-1713 Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'.

16-November-1835 Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19).

16-November-1860 First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.

16-November-1877 Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plating.

16-November-1883 Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi.

16-November-1887 Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born.

16-November-1908 Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born.

16-November-1913 Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born. 16-November-1915 Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, martyr, died.

16-November-1921 Nearly 700 Mopalh rebels were killed by the Gurkhas as they attacked the Pandikkad post at Delhi.

16-November-1947 Kamta Prasad ""Guru"" died at Jabalpur. He was renowned for his contribution in the field of Hindi Grammer. He was the editor of a monthly 'Saraswati' and 'Balasakha', children magazine.

16-November-1958 India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.

16-November-1962 Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war.

16-November-1983 Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game. 16-November-1986 Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore.

16-November-1988 India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine.

16-November-1989 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued.

16-November-1990 Allahabad High Court stays UP Government's decision to increase reservation quota for Backward Classes.

16-November-1990 Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent).

16-November-1991 60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.

16-November-1991 Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died.

16-November-1992 Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.

16-November-1993 Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. 16-November-1995 Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras.

16-November-1995 The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.

16-November-1997 Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.

16-November-1998 Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda.

16-November-1999 Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. 16-November-2000 The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.

                       

Events for November 15 

15-November-1621 Jahangir captured Kakda Fort.
15-November-1817 Battle of Yerwada.
15-November-1830 Ram Mohun Roy sailed for England. He was the first Indian Brahmin (then 'Brahmo') to go to England.
15-November-1875 Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was born at Ulihatu, Ranchi district, Bihar.
15-November-1911 First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
15-November-1913 Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
15-November-1920 Assembly meeting of the League of Nations.
15-November-1921 16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels.
15-November-1932 Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi
15-November-1937 Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska
15-November-1949 Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.
15-November-1982 Acharya Vinoba Bhave, great freedom fighter and social reformer, died (88 years) in Pawnar Ashram at Wardha near Nagpur, Maharashtra.
15-November-1982 S. N. Katkar, famous poet and former editor of 'Yugvani', died.
15-November-1988 Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
15-November-1989 Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.
15-November-1991 Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
15-November-1991 Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant.
15-November-1992 37 die in a landslide at Meghamalai near Chinnamanur.
15-November-1992 At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
15-November-1992 Praveen Amre scores century (103) on Test Cricket debut vs South Africa at Durban.
15-November-1993 IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.
15-November-1993 Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme.
15-November-1995 Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.
15-November-1997 INS Delhi' commissioned.
15-November-1998 Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
15-November-1999 Notorious criminal Surendra alias Dolatpuri is shot dead in a police encounter at Khatavli, Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh.
15-November-1999 The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana.
15-November-2000 India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
15-November-2000 Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi.

 

Events for November 14 

14-November-1681 East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
14-November-1889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India, was born. To commemorate his birthday, this day is observed as 'Children's Day' from 1957.
14-November-1914 Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
14-November-1919 Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily news paper ""Marathawada"", was b
14-November-1926 Piloo H. Mody, social reformer, politician and architect, was born at Bombay.
14-November-1955 Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President.
14-November-1957 Children's Day.
14-November-1959 Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.
14-November-1964 Nehru Commemorative coin is released.
14-November-1967 Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born.
14-November-1967 Kanakaiya Nayudu Colonel Cottari , cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), passed away at Indore.
14-November-1969 Jawaharlal Nehru University inaugurated in New Delhi.
14-November-1993 Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP.
14-November-1993 Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away.
14-November-1995 National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
14-November-1995 Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
14-November-1996 Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced.
14-November-1997 10th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
14-November-1997 Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.
14-November-1997 N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
14-November-1998 Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies.
14-November-2000 Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office.

 

 Events for November 13 

13-November-1780 Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was b
13-November-1901 Four Language panels were started on Rs. 10/- notes. First time four corner serial numbers were introduced. This panel had Indian languages which varied from state to state.
13-November-1901 War Secretary Brodrick claimed that Boers were killing natives in large numbers. He intended to withdraw troops from India to fight in S. Africa at London.
13-November-1908 Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born.
13-November-1909 Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
13-November-1917 Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
13-November-1917 Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.
13-November-1922 Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born.
13-November-1935 Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.
13-November-1945 Australian Services draw first Victory Test against India.
13-November-1953 Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi.
13-November-1962 Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died.
13-November-1970 Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed.
13-November-1991 Supreme Court orders establishment of an all-India judicial service.
13-November-1992 Dr. Pundalik Dattatrya Gaitonde, Goa freedom fighter, passed away.
13-November-1993 The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu.
13-November-1995 The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
13-November-1998 Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali.
13-November-1998 Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final.
13-November-1999 A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh.
13-November-1999 Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar.

 

   Events for November 12

 
12-November-1762 Peshwa surrendered in Battle of Alegaon.
12-November-1781 Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
12-November-1880 Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra).
12-November-1885 Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
12-November-1896 Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, explorer, ecologist, teacher, writer and bird watcher, was born.
12-November-1929 First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
12-November-1930 First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain.
12-November-1939 Pratap Chandra Lal arrived at the training establishment at RAF Station, Risalpur. He then rose to the Air Chief Marcharl of Indian Air Force.
12-November-1946 Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85.
12-November-1954 Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979), was born in Madras.
12-November-1958 Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
12-November-1959 Keshavrao Marutirao Jedhe, great leader of Harijans and farmers, passed away.
12-November-1969 Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I).
12-November-1984 Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President.
12-November-1990 Uttar Pradesh Government raises the reservation for Backward Classes in direct recruitment to State Services from 15 to 27 per cent.
12-November-1996 Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana.
12-November-1997 India elected to executive board of UNESCO.
12-November-1999 A 50-member BJP ministry led by Ram Prakash Gupta is sworn in Uttar Pradesh.
12-November-2000 Huge voter turnout for Congress Presidential poll. Seven top BSF and IAF officials die after their MI8 helicopter crashes near Lakhpat in the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.

 

Events for November 11 

11November-1675 Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
11-November-1793 English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies.
11-November-1866 Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born.
11-November-1872 Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was born.
11-November-1888 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, freedom fighter, was born in Mecca. He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life.
11-November-1888 Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
11-November-1906 Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras.11-November-1913 Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa.
11-November-1921 Gandhi urges Hindus to remove statue of ex-Viceroy Lord Lawrence.
11November-1923 Shamasunder Gururaj Mudgal, great educationist, was born at Bijapur, Bagalkot.
11-November-1924 Rusi Sheriyar Modi, cricketer (Indian batsman in post-War years), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
11November-1924 SunderLal Munnalal Patwa was born in Kukdeshwar, Distt. Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh).
11-November-1947 Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple.
11November-1958 Inauguration of 'Indian', first one in Indian Explosive Ltd's factory at Gomia.
11-November-1973 India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi.
11November-1979 President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India.
11-November-1980 The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.
'11November-1991 Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review.
11November-1992 S.Bangarappa resigns as the CM of Karnataka.
11-November-1994 The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.11-November-1996 A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500.
11-November-1998 India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.11-November-1998 V. M. Devaraj (78), DMK leader and former MLA, passed away after a brief illness. He represented Vellore in 1980, 1984 and 1989. He was a close associate of the DMK founder, C. N. Annadurai.
11-November-1999 Mr. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, leaves for Durban summit of the Commonhealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM).
11-November-2000 Mohun Bagan wins the Durand Cup in New Delhi.
11-November-2000 Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.

 

Events for November 10

10-November-1659 Chhatrapati Shivaji killed Afzal Khan near Pratapgad Fort by a clever but undignified move.

10-November-1698 East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.

10-November-1848 Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.

10-November-1901 Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.

10-November-1909 Gandhiji replies to Tolstoy, sends his biography by Doke.

10-November-1922 S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.

10-November-1938 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.

10-November-1960 B. N. Jha was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-03-1961

10-November-1960 First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State.

10-November-1968 Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati.

10-November-1989 Foundation stone laid for the Ram Janambhoomi temple at Ayodhya.

10-November-1990 Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.

10-November-1990 Chandra Shekhar Singh sworn in as 8th Prime Minister of India. He remained in this office till June 21, 1991 Devilal was sworn in as the Dy. Prime Minister.

10-November-1991 South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India.

10-November-1992 Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns.

10-November-1994 Dr. K. V. Putappa ""Kuvempu"", first Gyanpeet Awardee for literature and Kannad author, died at the age of 90 ye

10-November-2000 R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.

Events for November 9

9-November-1236 Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated.

9-November-1710 Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized.

9-November-1841 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), was born.

9-November-1871 Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.

9-November-1877 Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan).

9-November-1897 Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit

9-November-1904 Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani

9-November-1909 The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.

9-November-1913 Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.

9-November-1924 Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born.

9-November-1942 Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died.

9-November-1948 Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India.

9-November-1960 Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.

9-November-1962 Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died.

9-November-1967 Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.

9-November-1972 Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born.

9-November-1977 Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away.

9-November-1980 P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.

9-November-1990 JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party.

9-November-1990 Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.

9-November-1992 Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.

9-November-1993 Tamil Nadu Assembly urges the Centre to amend Constitution to retain 69\% reservation for backward classes.

9-November-1997 Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards.

9-November-1997 Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.

9-November-1998 India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi.

9-November-1999 BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor.

9-November-1999 Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.

9-November-2000 The 17-day old Manohar Parrikar led BJP Government in Goa wins the trust vote.

Events for November 8

8-November-1661 Guru Har Rai passed away. Second son Har Kishan became the eighth Sikh Guru age of 5 years 4 Months. He passed away at the age of 7 years 9 Months.

8-November-1831 Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born.

8-November-1893 Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore.

8-November-1919 Madan Theatres Ltd. was founded under a Joint Stock Company at Calcutta. Their maiden venture 'Bilwamangal' was released on November 8, 1919 at the Cornwallis Theatre, Calcutta.

8-November-1927 Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).

8-November-1932 Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi.

8-November-1947 Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C.

8-November-1948 Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy.

8-November-1960 Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.

8-November-1965 British Indian Ocean Territory formed.

8-November-1965 Bashiruddin Ahmad, religious leader and litterateur, passed away.

8-November-1966 Rameshwari Nehru, freedom fighter and social worker, died at 80 years in New Delhi. She founded ""Stree-Darpan"" Magazine in 1909 and was president of ""Indian Women Association"". She had received Lenin Peace Prize in 1961 for her humanitarian services for upliftment of the down

8-November-1968 Jansattak Party established.

8-November-1977 Bommi Narsing Reddy, famous film story writer and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away.

8-November-1988 At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.

8-November-1988 Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.

8-November-1990 Congress (I) extends support to Chandrasekhar to form Government, even as BJP and Left parties decline the request of President R. Venkataraman to form Government. Rajasthan BJP CM Bhairon Singh Shekhwat wins confidence motion with the help of Janata Dal rebels (116-80).

8-November-1991 K.P.S. Gill reappointed DGP in Punjab.

8-November-1992 Mother Teresa, nobel prize winner, was presented 'Bharat Ki Mahan Suputri' award.

8-November-1997 India lifts Asia Cup tennis title in Delhi.

8-November-1999 The Government announces waiver of telephone bills up to Rs. 1000 in the rural areas of cyclone-hit Orissa.

8-November-2000 Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen.

8-November-2000 India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi.

Events for November 7

7-November-1858 Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra

7-November-1862 Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.

7-November-1867 Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland.

7-November-1888 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born in Tiruchirapalli, South India. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called 'Raman scattering'--a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line has associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure.

7-November-1893 Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37.

7-November-1900 Ranga N.G, professor and politician, was born.

7-November-1907 Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra.

7-November-1908 N. R. Shede (Annasaheb), litterateur and editor, was born.

7-November-1912 Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore.

7-November-1933 Gaandhiji commences Harijan-upliftment tour.

7-November-1936 Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born.

7-November-1950 King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.

7-November-1958 Nehru said the role of Gen. Mohammed Ayub Khan in Pakistan had increased the 'risk and danger of war' between India and Pakistan.

7-November-1966 Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.

7-November-1971 India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery.

7-November-1974 South Africa beats India in Women's Open in 63rd Tennis Davis Cup.

7-November-1975 Indian Supreme Court validates election of Indira Gandhi at New Delhi.

7-November-1990 National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government.

7-November-1990 Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78.

7-November-1991 Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car.

7-November-1995 G-15 summit concludes calling for South-South cooperation and reduction of trade barriers, tariffs among the member countries, stability of interest and exchange rates.

7-November-1995 India opens second consulate in UK in Glasgow (first being at Birmingham).

7-November-1995 Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.

7-November-1996 Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.

7-November-1997 RBI Governor Dr. Chakravarti Rangarajan appointed new Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Bimal Jalan, Member-Secretary, Planning Commission, will take over as RBI Governor.

7-November-1998 Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas.

7-November-1998 The Kalidas Samman awards, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government, are presented to Tapas Sen, Akbar Padamsee, Shriram Lagoo, Pandit Jasraj and Kalyani Kutti Amma.

7-November-2000 Indrajit Bhalotia wins the Wills Southern Open golf tournament.

7-November-2000 The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.

Events for November 6

6-November-1904 Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born.

6-November-1905 Ram Bachan 'Aravind' Dwivedi, great Hindi, Bhojpuri poet and writer, was born at Dubouli, Bihar.

6-November-1910 Satakopan Chandilyan Bhashyam, journalist, was born at Tirukkoilur, Madras.

6-November-1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of Indian Passive Resistance Movement, was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa by British troops.

6-November-1930 First Round Table Conference held at London.

6-November-1931 Chithira Tirunal Bala Ramavarma, ascended throne and ruled state of Travancore as Maharaja, passed away.

6-November-1937 Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).

6-November-1946 Gandhiji leaves for Noakhali; issues statement on ""Partial Fast"". Noakhali tour beg

6-November-1946 P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away.

6-November-1950 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.

6-November-1951 Judge M. Patanjali Sastri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 03/01/1954.

6-November-1952 Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born.

6-November-1962 National Defence Council established.

6-November-1985 Sanjeev Kumar, film actor, died.

6-November-1988 The graduated use of force finally compelled the rebels to surrender and the personnel of Godavari then took over. When psychological pressure did not succeed, warning shots were fired by both the naval ships.

6-November-1993 First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.

6-November-1996 India wins Titan's cup beating South Africa in Mumbai.

6-November-1997 Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks.

6-November-1997 Supreme Court acquits former Union Minister for Power and Food Kalpanath Rai held under TADA for alleged harbouring of an accused in ""1992 Bombay J.J. Hospital shootout case'

6-November-1998 Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.

6-November-1999 Red carpet welcome to Pope. He appreciated the religious freedom in India.

6-November-2000 Buddhadev Bhattacharya assumes office as West Bengal Chief Minister.

6-November-2000 Richa Mishra creates a national record in the women's 400m individual medley in 5.15.28sec in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.

Events for November 5

5-November-1509 Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India.

5-November-1556 Mughals, under the leadership of Akbar, defeated Hindu ruler Hemu in the second battle of Panipat.

5-November-1605 Accession of Jahangir

5-November-1870 Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.

5-November-1892 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.

5-November-1906 Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name.

5-November-1907 Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.

5-November-1915 Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.

5-November-1920 Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities.

5-November-1927 Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.

5-November-1928 R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.

5-November-1929 Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died.

5-November-1930 Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born.

5-November-1931 M. G. Subramaniam, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1983-84, was born in Karnataka.

5-November-1945 Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.

5-November-1950 Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died.

5-November-1951 Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.

5-November-1956 Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary.

5-November-1956 University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.

5-November-1961 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.

5-November-1976 Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.

5-November-1977 Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.

5-November-1990 Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.

5-November-1994 Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines.

5-November-1995 Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful.

5-November-1995 Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires.

5-November-1996 Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case.

5-November-1996 Madhavrao Scindia rejoins Congress.

5-November-1996 United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).

5-November-1997 Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.

5-November-1998 India and Pakistan agree to continue their talks on the Tulbul navigator project on the Jhelum in Kashmir, despite differences over various provisions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960.

5-November-1998 Baba Nagarjun ""Vaidyanath Mishra"" died. He wrote in Hindi, Maithali and Sanskrit. Some of his noted works are ""Patra-Heen- Nagna Gachh"", ""Dukhmochan"", ""Yugdhara"" and ""Sah

5-November-1999 India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.

5-November-1999 Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months.

5-November-1999 The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.

5-November-2000 The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999.

Events for November 4

4-November-1618 Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], great Mughal emperor (1658-1707), was born at Dohad in Gujarat. (3/11 or 4/11 or 24/10).

4-November-1657 Muhammad Adilshaha passed away. (1656 or 1657).

4-November-1845 Vasudeo Balvant Phadke, great revolutionary, social reformer and father of armed freedom fighting movement, was born at Shirdhon village in Raigad district.

4-November-1889 Jamnalal Bajaj, industrialist, social reofrmer and freedom fighter, was born in the village of Kashi -Ka -Bas near Jaipur.

4-November-1915 Sir Pherozeshah Mehta also refered as the ""Lion of Bombay"" died in Bombay. He was founder of the English newspaper, ""Bombay Chronicle"", and was knighted in 1904. He was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Bombay in 1910 and was founder of Central Bank of

4-November-1925 Rutwik Kumar Ghatak, famous film producer and actor, was born.

4-November-1930 Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, educationist, was born at Patna, Bihar .

4-November-1931 Mahatma Gandhi paid a visit to Buckingham Palace clad in his loin cloth and homespun shawl, and met India's Emperor on this date. Gandhi's sandals pattered on the floor as he crossed the drawing room to greet King George V and Queen Mary.

4-November-1936 Shankutala Devi, great mathematician, was born. She had then defeated the computer in making mental major calculation.

4-November-1947 India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating their neutrality agreement in the Kashmir dispute as Indian troops invade the state.

4-November-1948 To supplement the Tiger Moths, Prentice basic trainers were delivered to the RIAF during the course of 1948, eventually to see service at Jodhpur, Tambaram and Ambala, but truly epoch making in so far as the Service was concerned was the arrival of three Vampire F.Mk.3 jet fighters in India on November 4, 1948 .

4-November-1951 Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings.

4-November-1954 Himalayan Mountaineering Institute established at Darjiling.

4-November-1970 Pandit Shambhu Maharaj, the great Kathak dance master and King of India, passed away.

4-November-1971 148 Indians and rebels die as they try to capture the border post of Akhipaba at Pakistan.

4-November-1974 Ahindra Chaudhary, famous Bengali film and stage artist, passed away.

4-November-1982 Gen. Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan visits New Delhi. Agreement to set up a Joint Commission.

4-November-1988 Lok Dal splits, H.N.Bahuguna expelled and Devi Lal elected to replace him.

4-November-1988 The merchant ship was spotted by a maritime reconnaissance aircraft on the morning, where upon IN ships Godavari and Betwa sped to the scene to bring the rebels to book.

4-November-1997 Kerala's largest railway overbridge at Ambalapuzha opened.

4-November-1997 Guddi, world's shortest woman standing just one metre above the ground, gives birth to her fourth child.

4-November-1997 UNESCO named 8 scientists laureates of the five 1997 science prizes for their contribution. Prof. Dorairajan Balasubramanian (58), Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology of Hyderabad were named Laureate of Kalinga prize for popularisation of Science.

4-November-1998 Viswanathan Anand wins the 3rd Fontys chess tournament at Tilburg. Paramjeet Singh upstages Milkha Singh's 38-year-old 400m record at the national open athletic championship at Calcutta.

Events for November 3

3-November-1605 Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.

3-November-1900 Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born.

3-November-1906 Prithviraj Kapoor, stage and film artist, member of Rajya Sabha and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, was born.

3-November-1908 Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.

3-November-1929 Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.

3-November-1933 Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).

3-November-1945 Temporary Octroi Mandal established.

3-November-1948 Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly.

3-November-1961 Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war.

3-November-1966 Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000.

3-November-1984 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.

3-November-1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.

3-November-1986 Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died.

3-November-1988 Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.

3-November-1990 Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away.

3-November-1991 India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.

3-November-1992 Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away.

3-November-1995 Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim.

3-November-1996 Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM.

3-November-1997 Vice President Krishan Kant presents India's 3-point 'South's positive agenda' at G-15 meet at Kuala Lumpur to ensure a fair deal in the process of globalisation.

3-November-1997 American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity.

3-November-1997 India presents G-15 with agenda for a fair deal in Kuala Lumpur. India calls upon Group of 15 developing countries to ""build convergences among nations and encourage G-7 to pursue structured and issue-based dialogue with us'

3-November-1998 Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation.

3-November-1998 The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.

3-November-1999 Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.

3-November-1999 Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).

3-November-2000 BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report.

Events for November 2

2-November-1534 Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born.

2-November-1774 Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India.

2-November-1841 Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan.

2-November-1871 Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was born.

2-November-1885 Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died.

2-November-1889 Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, was born at Chiniot in Jhang district, Punjab.

2-November-1897 Sohrab Meharwanji Modi, theatre and film producer, director and actor, was born.

2-November-1908 50 years after the start of direct rule, Edward VII talks of 'prudently extending' democracy.

2-November-1950 India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.

2-November-1956 Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.

2-November-1967 Ministry of Education evolves a National Service Scheme for University students.

2-November-1971 Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.

2-November-1971 Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa.

2-November-1972 ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.

2-November-1972 B. D. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1977

2-November-1976 Lok Sabha passes the 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill making India a Socialist Secular Republic and laying down the fundamental duties of citizens.

2-November-1984 Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.

2-November-1990 Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.

2-November-1992 Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.

2-November-1994 Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter.

2-November-1999 BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.

2-November-1999 The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship.

2-November-2000 John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI.

2-November-2000 Sinam Chandramani Singh (18), national bravery award winner, his brother Sinam Robin Singh and their aunt were among 10 killed in firing by eight Assam Rifles personnel at Malom near Imphal.

Events for November 1

1-November-1858  Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India.

1-November-1880 Aga Khan III, Muslim spritual leader, died. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. He was also responsible in forming the Muslim League.

1-November-1902 Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham. 

1-November-1913Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco. 

1-November-1927 Ghani Khan Chaudha, political leader, was born.

1-November-1930 S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar.

1-November-1932 Anadi Sankar Gupta, great educationist, was born at Goila, Bangladesh.

1-November-1936 Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand, justice, was born at Jammu (J & K State). He was the Chief Justice of India from 10/10/1998.

1-November-1937 Keral University established.

1-November-1945 Narendra Dabholkar, blind faith eradicator (Andhashradhha Nirmulak), was born.

1-November-1948 An Indian brigade group supported by the 7th Cavalry (Stuart tanks) broke through the Great Himalayan Range at Zojila to drive out the invaders from Ladakh district. At approximately 3,500 metres, this was the highest point in the history of warfare that tanks had operated.

1-November-1949 Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.

1-November-1950 First Indigenous Steam Engine from Chitranjan Rail Factory railed out.

1-November-1954 French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India.

1-November-1956 Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.

1-November-1956 Madhya Pradesh State High Court was established at Jabalpur having its benches in Gwalior and Indore.

1-November-1961 First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.

1-November-1966 Punjab High Court was renamed as Punjab & Haryana High Court. This court was established in Chandigarh for Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh territory.

1-November-1966 Haryana state was created from Punjab, and Chandigarh was declared as the Union Territory and capital of both Punjab and Haryana.

1-November-1967 Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.

1-November-1973 Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.

1-November-1974 Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996 ), was born in Hyderabad.

1-November-1978 Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was converted from College of Agriculture to University.

1-November-1983 Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in response.

1-November-1985 Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning.

1-November-1990 JD Government in Gujarat, headed by Chimanbhai Patel, defeats no-confidence motion with Congress (I) support.

1-November-1991 J.N. Dixit appointed the next Foreign Secretary.

1-November-1992 The Superfast Rajdhani Express train linking Bangalore and Nizamuddin (2,452 km) flagged off.

1-November-1992 Indirabai Khadilkar, famous singer, died.

1-November-1996 Michael Jackson show at Andheri sports complex in Mumbai.1-November-1996 Three national parties (Indira Congress, Janata Party and Samata Party) to lose their recognition as national parties as they failed to get the minimum required support in the general election to the 11th Lok Sabha.

1-November-1996 K.L. Chugh and J.N. Sapru, former chairmen of ITC, remanded to custody in connection with FERA violation case.

1-November-1999 H. K. Dua, senior Journalist and former editor of The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times, is appointed the Press Adviser to the Prime Minister.

1-November-1999 Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.

1-November-1999 SC refuses to interfere with the Delhi High Court order in TRAI case.

1-November-2000 T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.

1-November-2000 Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.

Events for October 31

31-October-1843 Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born.

31-October-1875 Vallabhbhai Zaverbhai Patel, 'Iron man of India', was born at Nadiad, Gujarat. He was also the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. His father had served in the army of the Rani of Jhansi against Britishers.

31-October-1876 Cyclone hits Bengal centered near Bakarganj (now in Banlgadesh), about 200,000 die.

31-October-1885 St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi.

31-October-1895 Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur.

31-October-1919 Jaikisan Harivallabhdas, great industrialist, was born.

31-October-1920 Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay.

31-October-1955 The Prime Minister inaugurated the Cooperative Milk Producers' Union factory at Anand, Gujarat.

31-October-1962 Krishna Menon, Home Minister, resign due to attack by China.

31-October-1963 Krishna Menon, resigned from the post of Defence Minister of India, due to Chinese attack.

31-October-1966 Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes.

31-October-1975 Sachin Dev Burman, famous music director, died.

31-October-1984 Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.

31-October-1984 Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.'

31-October-1989 Dr. A. P. Mukherjee became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation till 11/01/90.

31-October-1990 Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.

31-October-1990 Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead.

31-October-1991 Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya.

31-October-1994 26 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.

31-October-1997 Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi.

31-October-1997 Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.

31-October-1997 Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai.

31-October-1999 Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.

31-October-1999 Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.

31-October-1999 Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.

31-October-1999 The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust president ends fast in support of his eight-point demands including improvement of 'puja' and 'darshan' arrangements of 'Ram Lala' at the temple.

31-October-2000 Chhattisgarh, the 26th State of Indian Union, comes into existence with the swearing in of its Governor Dinesh Nandan Sahay and Chief Minister Ajit Jogi at a glittering function at Raipur.

31-October-2000 The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'.

Events for October 30

30-October-1883 Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
30-October-1887 Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.
30-October-1889 Acharya Narendra Deo, educationist, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Sitapur, U.P.
30-October-1908 Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Pasumpon village, Tamil Nadu.
30-October-1909 Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay.
30-October-1924 Word Saving Day.
30-October-1928 Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai.
30-October-1933 Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai.
30-October-1947 The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.
30-October-1947 The first Spitfires from the Advanced Flying School at Ambala reached Srinagar and were soon engaged in strafing the raiders beyond Pattan. Within a week, the Tempests of No. 7 Squadron were playing a decisive role in the battle of Shelatang which halted the forward momentum of the insurgents.
30-October-1949 Pramond Venkatesh Devidas Mahajan was born in Mahaboobnagar (Andhra Pradesh).
30-October-1963 Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai.
30-October-1966 First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.
30-October-1976 Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
30-October-1977 One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.
30-October-1977 Demonstrators and police clash in Madras as Indira Gandhi tours the country.
30-October-1990 Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid to perform 'karseva'.
30-October-1991 Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away.
30-October-1991 Norberto Carvalho, vetern freedom fighter of Goa freedom fight, passed away.
30-October-1992 India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade.
30-October-1994 Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died.
30-October-1994 India seeks Chinese support for Security Council membership.
30-October-1996 CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case.
30-October-1996 Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case.
30-October-1996 ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.
30-October-1996 Pop star Michael Jackson arrives in Bombay.
30-October-1997 Kerala Kaumudi's Kannur edition and Internet edition begin.
30-October-1999 G.V.G. Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner, seeks enhanced security in the wake of threats to his life.
30-October-1999 The Central Ministerial team led by Mr. Advani is prevented from making an on-the-spot assessment of the havoc wrecked by the super cyclone.
30-October-2000 The 160-page CBI's report on cricket match-fixing names Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar and former physiotherapist Dr. Ali Irani for their deep-rooted nexus with betting syndicates. It virtually gives a clean chit to Kapil Dev.

Events for October 29

29-October-1851 British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary.

29-October-1920 Jamia Milliya Islamia was founded by Dr. Jakir Husain and his collegues at Aligarh. 'Khilafat' and the Non- Cooperation Movement were an integral part of policy animating.

29-October-1929 Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.

29-October-1930 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.

29-October-1935 Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born.

29-October-1947 Mysore's popular ministry sworn in.

29-October-1952 Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name.

29-October-1958 Dhondo Keshav Karve, first social and educational reformer of Maharashtra, honoured by Bharat Ratna Award.

29-October-1961 New All India Muslim League was established.

29-October-1962 China attacked India.

29-October-1963 Priceless and irreplaceable gems, including the famed 'Star of India' of 563.35 carats and 2.5 inches in diameter, were stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in a daring burglary. An alarm system was discontinued years ago as was the all-night guard in the gem hall, both for reasons of economy. The jewels were uninsured due to high-priced premiums.

29-October-1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in a daring burglary at New York, USA.

29-October-1967 Kurtkoti Lingangaunda, great Indian Philosopher, passed away.

29-October-1971 Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives.

29-October-1988 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away.

29-October-1990 Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died.

29-October-1991 Janta Dal leaders inculding V.P. Singh arrested on way to Ayodhya.

29-October-1991 Barister Waman Barlinge (Dadasaheb), great freedom fighter, former Rajya Sabha member and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.

29-October-1992 Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem.

29-October-1996 Shankarsinh Waghela, Gujarat CM, wins confidence vote.

29-October-1996 Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.

29-October-1997 P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.

29-October-1999 The Anubhav Group chairman C. Natesan was arrested by the Mumbai Police on alleged charges of duping investors to the tune of Rs. 1.16 crore.

29-October-1999 L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.

29-October-2000 Jitendra Prasada, senior Congress leader, files nomination papers for the party presidential polls setting the stage for a contest against the incumbent, Ms. Sonia Gandhi.

Events for October 28

28-October-1627 Jahangir, Mughal emperor, weak from asthma and no food, died at Bhimghar near Kashmir. He was buried at Shahdara (Lahore) on the banks of the Ravi. During his last days, he remained in the custody of Aurangzeb. ( 28/10 or 7/11).

28-October-1811 Yashwantrao Holkar, a diplomat of Peshwa kingdom, died.
28-October-1867 Swami Vivekanand Sister Nivedita, great freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician, was born at Dunganon in Ireland.
28-October-1888 Gandhiji reaches London. Lives on vegatarian diet. Takes lessons in dancing and music for a short time, thinking they are necessary parts of a gentleman's equipment.
28-October-1911 Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat.
28-October-1928 M.G.K. Menon, Physics expert, was born.
28-October-1929 Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born.
28-October-1946 Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.
28-October-1947 Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K.
28-October-1962 US pledges to rush arms to India.
28-October-1964 Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away.28-October-1977 Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died.
28-October-1981 Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta.
28-October-1984 Federal agents early this morning caught Guru Shree Rajneesh trying to flee the country. Rajneesh was charged with violating immigration laws and arranging phoney marriages for his cult members. The religious leader was nabbed at Charlotte, North Carolina airport when his jet, bound for Bermuda, touched down for re-fueling. The Bhagwan ran a commune of about 1,500 people in Oregon. Thousands more cult members live in Rajneesh's native land India and other countries. He knew the federal government had no faith in him after his chief adviser, a woman named Ma Anand Sheela, was arrested in West Germany for several minor offenses. Rajneesh appeared in court on this date clad in a lavender robe.
28-October-1991 Chruchill Alemao of Goa set free by court.
28-October-1992 Karnataka government withdraws order allowing nine private organisations to start capitation fee for engineering colleges.
28-October-1996 L.K. Advani, BJP President, appears personally for the first time in a Gwalior Court.
28-October-1996 Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi.
28-October-1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their first Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever.
28-October-1996 Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
28-October-1997 Cabinet permits RBI to issue rupee notes of 1000 denomination.
28-October-1997 Gold import placed under Open General Licence.
28-October-1997 Govt. extends ceasefire in Nagaland by 3 months from October 31.
28-October-1997 Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore.
28-October-1998 Ghulam Ahmed, former Indian cricket captain, died in Hyderabad.
28-October-1998 The 1997 B.C. Roy National Award was presented to 18 medical experts.
28-October-1998 The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
28-October-1999 The Delhi High Court stays TRAI's plan to introduce free incoming calls on mobile phones from November 1.
28-October-1999 Insurance Bill is introduced amid protest in the Lok Sabha.
28-October-2000 The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985.

Events for October 27

27-October-1904 Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Bankim Behari in Calcutta.

27-October-1907 Sardar Bhagat Singh, the great martyr, was born in village Banga, Lyallpur (now in Pakistsan) in a reputed Sikh freedom fighter's family.

27-October-1907 Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.

27-October-1920 Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala.

27-October-1923 Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born.

27-October-1926 Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar

27-October-1928 Dattaji Krishnarao Gaekwad, father of Anshuman and batted in 11 Tests 1950's, was born in Baroda.

27-October-1937 Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of 'Kirana Gharana', died.

27-October-1947 Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.

27-October-1969 Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.

27-October-1973 The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Calicut in Kerala.

27-October-1982 Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died.

27-October-1987 Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.

27-October-1989 The XIV-World Congress of Neurology was held in New Delhi under the auspices of the World Federation of Neurology and Neurology Society of India. (21-10-89).

27-October-1992 Veerappa Moily, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, resigned from Bangarappa Government in Karnataka.

27-October-1997 UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members.

27-October-1998 L. P. Singh, ICS, former Governor of five north eastern states, died in New Delhi. He was 86.

27-October-1999 P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

27-October-1999 The Archbishop of Delhi rules out Pope John Paul II's dialogue with the VHP during his visit to India in November.

27-October-1999 Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Madhya Pradesh splits.

27-October-2000 The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.

Events for October 26

26-October-1814 British General Governor declared war against Nepal.

26-October-1886 Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born.

26-October-1890 Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.

26-October-1891 Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, was born.

26-October-1928 R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta.

26-October-1930 Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.

26-October-1930 Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her.

26-October-1932 Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.

26-October-1932 Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born.

26-October-1934 Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.

26-October-1935 Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.

26-October-1937 Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born.

26-October-1943 Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.

26-October-1946 27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta.

26-October-1947 After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously.

26-October-1950 Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.

26-October-1950 Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.

26-October-1952 Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .

26-October-1961 Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.

26-October-1962 After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.

26-October-1969 Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.

26-October-1981 Dattatrey Ramchandra Bendre, Gyanpeet awardee and Kannad poet, died.

26-October-1990 V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.

26-October-1991 Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily newspaper 'Marathwada', died.

26-October-1995 India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan.

26-October-1996 CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.

26-October-1999 India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

26-October-1999 Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas.

26-October-1999 The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.

Events for October 25

25-October-1296 Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee).
25-October-1932 Pearless' investment company was established.
25-October-1951 First General Election of India begins.
25-October-1964 First indigenous tank was manufactured in Awdi factory and was named 'Vijayant'.
25-October-1971 National Science and Technology Committee established.
25-October-1980 Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died.
25-October-1983 Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices.
25-October-1989 P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad.
25-October-1990 JD and BJP withdrew support to Rajasthan and Gujarat governments respectively.25-October-1990 Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died.
25-October-1995 Narsimha Rao, PM, addresses the 50th anniversary session of the UN.
25-October-1997 180mw Lower Periyar Hydroelectric Project in Kerala commissioned after 13 long years.
25-October-1999 Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament.
25-October-1999 Pramod Mahajan, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, says, "No objection to Bofors discussion".
25-October-1999 US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson arrives.
25-October-2000 The BJP Legislature Party in UP elects Rajnath Singh its leader.

Events for October 24

24-October-1505 Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.

24-October-1579 Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.

24-October-1605 Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra.

24-October-1657 Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

24-October-1789 Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born.

24-October-1827 Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born.

24-October-1851 First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.

24-October-1856 Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur.

24-October-1868 Balasaheb Pantpratinidhi, king of Aundh and painter, was born.

24-October-1890 Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.

24-October-1904 Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born.

24-October-1930 Raj Bagri, Indies and British merchant in metal, was born.

24-October-1933 Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals.

24-October-1934 Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.

24-October-1934 Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay.

24-October-1938 Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur.

24-October-1945 UNO Day.

24-October-1953 Selection of the Dassault Ouragan fighter from France at this time reflected the decision to initiate diversification of supply sources. The first four of over 100 Ouragans, or 'Toofanis' as they were to become known in the IAF, reached Palam Airport from France and this type re-equipped Nos.8, 3 and 4 Squadrons in that order.

24-October-1954 Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.

24-October-1955 Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.

24-October-1966 Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam.

24-October-1975 Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance.

24-October-1984 First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.

24-October-1990 BJP-sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' in protest against L. K. Advani's arrest evokeed mixed response.

24-October-1991 Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years.

24-October-1992 Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects.

24-October-1994 Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India.

24-October-1994 The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.

24-October-1995 A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.

24-October-1995 Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.

24-October-1997 Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.

24-October-2000 Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur.

24-October-2000 Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.

24-October-2000 Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi.

Events for October 23

23-October-1797 John J Rochussen, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1845-51), was born.

23-October-1824 Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.

23-October-1883 Mirza Mohammad Ismile, Diwan of Mysore and Prime Minister of Hydrabad and Jaipur, was born.

23-October-1883 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat.

23-October-1898 Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.

23-October-1919 Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, takes over as Former Secretary from Tory leader Arthur Balfour in London.

23-October-1934 Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.

23-October-1943 Netaji Subash Chandra Bose inaugurated the Rani Jhansi Brigade in Azad Hind Army and announced war against the British Empire.

23-October-1959 Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.

23-October-1970 If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hours.

23-October-1973 Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died.

23-October-1985 Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.

23-October-1990 Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.

23-October-1992 The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign.

23-October-1992 UPSC decides to introduce a new essay paper for the civil services examination.

23-October-1996 Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.

23-October-1996 Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.

23-October-1997 I.K. Gujral, PM, leaves for Edinburgh to attend Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting.

23-October-1997 Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender.

23-October-1999 A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.

23-October-1999 The chargesheet in Bofors case is a legal triumph, said Mr. Advani. But Congress(I) calls it as a political vendetta.

23-October-1999 V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.

Events for October 22

22-October-1680 Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died.

22-October-1764 The historic battle of Baksar started. (22nd October or 23rd October).
22-October-1796 Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.
22-October-1873 Swami Rama Tirtha, great social reformer and poet, was born at Murariwala village of Gujranwala district. He lectured throughout Japan and America spreading ""practical Vedant
22-October-1908 John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India.
22-October-1912 Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits.
22-October-1913 Harumal Sadarangani, famous Sindhi writer, was born at Sind, Pakistan.
22-October-1929 Air Mail Series Stamps were issued. These stamps were of denominations of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 annas.
22-October-1933 Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva.
22-October-1937 Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.
22-October-1947 There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.
22-October-1962 Bakhra-Nangal Dam, a multipurpose river valley project, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
22-October-1983 The Union government reduces the upper age limit for the Civil Services Examination from 28 years to 26 years.
22-October-1997 Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.
22-October-1997 Indian veterans take winning 3-0 lead against Pakistan in the five-match cricket series.
22-October-1999 Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term.
22-October-1999 The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.
22-October-2000 The Supreme Court, in a significant order, erases Karnataka High Court judgement discharging former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa and his then private secretary R.Suribabu in a corruption case.

Events for October 21

21-October-1296 Alauddin Khalji conquered the throne of Delhi. In July declared himself as the Sultan.

21-October-1577 Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, established Amritsar city.

21-October-1762 Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.

21-October-1789 Ramshastri Prabhune, justice of Peshwa kingdom, died.

21-October-1858 Ramabai Dongre Medhavi, great social reformer, was born.

21-October-1887 Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, great politician, revolutionist leader and chief minister, was born at Khanwa.

21-October-1906 Gandhiji went to England till Nov 30 on deputation to present Indians' case to Colonial Secretary.

21-October-1916 Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.

21-October-1934 Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.

21-October-1943 Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.

21-October-1947 The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.

21-October-1950 China invades Tibet.

21-October-1954 Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.

21-October-1959 Chinese and Indian troops clash on Ladakh border.

21-October-1981 Kerala under central rule.

21-October-1989 Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda sentenced to death for the murder of former Army Chief Gen. A. K. Vaidya.

21-October-1990 Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.

21-October-1994 Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

21-October-1995 L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi.

21-October-1995 Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil.

21-October-1996 Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India.

21-October-1997 Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.

21-October-1997 RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates.

21-October-1998 Ajit alias Hamid Ali Khan (76), Hindi film actor, dies in Hyderabad.

21-October-1999 B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

21-October-1999 Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha.

21-October-2000 Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.

Events for October 20

20-October-1752 The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra.
20-October-1774 New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.
20-October-1905 Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born.
20-October-1919 Chaitanyabala Divatia, great author, was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
20-October-1920 Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919.
20-October-1947 First battle between India and Pakistan.
20-October-1954 Surendra Vithal Nayak ""Suru Nayak"", cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982), was born in Bom
20-October-1960 Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills.
20-October-1961 B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
20-October-1962 The first IAFunit No. 2 squadron re-equipped with the Gnat at Ambalan and No.9 squadron soon followed suit.
20-October-1962 China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
20-October-1963 Navjot Singh Bhagwantsingh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Patiala.
20-October-1969 Punjabrao Agriculture University established.

20-October-1978 Virender Sehwag was Born in 

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20-October-1981 21-month-old Left United Front Ministry led by E. K. Nayanar resigns in Kerala.
20-October-1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over West Indies and India.
20-October-1990 Andhra Pradesh Government announces a five-day week for all offices and educational institutions from November 01, 1990.
20-October-1990 Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
20-October-1991 6.1-7.1 earthquake in uttar Kashi and three northern districts of UP in the Himalayan foothills kills more than 1,600 people.
20-October-1991 Manohar Phalke, famous union leader and MLA, died.
20-October-1991 Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died.
20-October-1992 Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire.
20-October-1997 All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
20-October-1997 Veerappan, the forest brigand, releases the six hostages after 12 days.
20-October-1998 Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosives in the Tangmay area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.
20-October-1999 Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha.
20-October-1999 The Cabinet approves the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) Bill for introduction in the current session of Lok Sabha if time permits.
20-October-1999 The Centre accepts the recommendations of the Backward Classes Commission on the inclusion of Jats and other backward classes (OBCs) in Rajasthan except Bharatpur and Dholpur districts.

Events for October 19

19-October-1689 Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
19-October-1774 Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.
19-October-1875 The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.
19-October-1888 Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
19-October-1905 Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.
19-October-1907 Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born.
19-October-1910 Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
19-October-1920 Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
19-October-1921 Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.
19-October-1925 B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born.
19-October-1929 Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
19-October-1954 Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
19-October-1967 Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
19-October-1970 First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
19-October-1974 T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died.
19-October-1979 T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
19-October-1983 Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
19-October-1983 Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
19-October-1990 The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.
19-October-1997 BSP withdraws support to Kalyan Singh government in UP because of its 'anti-Dalit' policies.
19-October-1999 Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I).
19-October-2000 The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.

Events for October 18

18-October-1712 Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born.
18-October-1861 Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born.
18-October-1879 Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India.
18-October-1901 Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.
18-October-1906 Depressed Classes Mission Society' was established by Vitthal Ramji Shinde.
18-October-1919 W. A. Sangma, leader of Meghalaya, was born.
18-October-1925 Narayandatt Tiwar, former Central minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
18-October-1927 Ramesh Vithaldas Divecha, cricketer (11 wickets for India in early 50's), was born in Bombay.
18-October-1928 Roshan Harshadlal ""Deepak"" Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India), was born in Ahmeda
18-October-1952 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wickets to win first Indo-Pak clash.
18-October-1968 Narendra Deepchand Hirwani, cricketer (Ind leggie 16 wickets vs WI on debut in 1988), was born in Gorakhpur.
18-October-1980 The first Himalayan Car Rally of 5,377.9 km was started from Brabourne Stadium, Bombay with 74 starters.
18-October-1983 Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died.
18-October-1992 1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
18-October-1992 Zimbabwe's first Test match vs India at Harare.
18-October-1993 Mandakini Athvale, first child actor of Indian film industry, died.
18-October-1995 President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation.
18-October-1995 Punjab CM Harcharan Singh Brar inducts All India Youth Congress President Maninderjit Singh Bitta in to the cabinet.
18-October-1995 Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor, died.
18-October-1996 Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi to be the venue for the trial of former PM Rao.
18-October-1997 Prince Philip switches on the internet version of Malayala Manorama and The Week at Kochi.
18-October-2000 Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.
18-October-2000 Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, announces relief for phone users. New links to cost Rs. 2,000 in urban areas and Rs. 500 in rural areas.

Events for October 17

17-October-1817 Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of modern India, was born in Delhi.
17-October-1859 Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born.
17-October-1903 7th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
17-October-1906 Swami Ramtirtha, great social reformer and poet, died at the age of 33.
17-October-1915 Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
17-October-1919 The Khilafat Movement was launched under the leadership of Maulana Jauhar Ali, Maulana Shaukat Ali and Abdul Kalam Azad.
17-October-1920 Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji.
17-October-1932 Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, was captured by the British army.
17-October-1940 Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
17-October-1949 The Constituent Assembly of India adopted Article 370 of the Constitution making special provisions for J&K.
17-October-1970 Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore.
17-October-1979 Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
17-October-1979 Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences.
17-October-1990 S. Bangarappa sworn in as CM of Karnataka following revocation of President's rule.
17-October-1994 Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies.
17-October-1994 Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay.
17-October-1995 BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP.
17-October-1996 President's rule reimposed in U.P.
17-October-1997 Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City being set up at Jalandhar, Punjab.
17-October-1997 SEBI asks investors to adopt paperless trading through depository.
17-October-1998 Nine women are buried alive as the roof of the 200-year-old Balaji temple in Varanasi's Ramghat area caves in.
17-October-1999 Chiranjeev Milkha Singh won the Lexus International Golf tournament in Bangkok.
17-October-1999 Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
17-October-1999 Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.

Events for October 16

16-October-1788 Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi.
16-October-1878 Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
16-October-1896 Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
16-October-1905 Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the n]ational movement.16-October-1906 Shankar Damodar Chitale, famous author and teacher, was born in Secundarabad.
16-October-1920 B. Sathyaji Rao, cricket Test umpire for 17 tests from 1960-79, was born in Karnataka.
16-October-1922 M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
16-October-1936 35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.
16-October-1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
16-October-1945 Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
16-October-1952 Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.
16-October-1959 National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.
16-October-1968 Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
16-October-1971 David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere.
16-October-1976 Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting.
16-October-1978 Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.
16-October-1983 Harish Chandra, great Indian scientist, died. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.
16-October-1990 Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.
16-October-1990 Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died.
16-October-1992 Capt. P. K. Sahgal of Azad Hind Fauz died. During the trial at the Red Fort, he said, ""Beacuse I wanted freedom for my motherland , I was ready to shed my blood for it."" (15-5-97)
16-October-1994 CIA connection to CN Annadurai alleged in book on Seshan, Jayalalitha obtains stay.
16-October-1994 IRS P-2 successfully placed in orbit.16-October-1997 Queen Elizabeth visits Kalakshetra where she witnesses Bharatanatyam show and film shooting at MGR Film City, Taramani in Chennai. She also goes to Kancheepuram and Sriperumbudur (Rajiv Gandhi memorial).
16-October-1999 A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly.
16-October-1999 Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the ""Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'
16-October-1999 Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang.
16-October-1999 Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister.

16-October-1999 Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

16-October-2000 Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches.

Events for October 15

15-October-1542 Akbar Abul-Fath Djalaluddin, third Mughal Emperor of India (1556-1605), was born at Amarkot in Sind under the protection of Rana Virsal. Humayun had also taken refuge at Amarkot.

15-October-1676 King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.

15-October-1686 Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.

15-October-1866 Vasudevacharya Kerur, famous Kannad novelist, playwright and journalist, was born.

15-October-1888 Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.

15-October-1899 Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born.

15-October-1902 Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaekwad, great leader, was born. He was a colleagu of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.

15-October-1915 Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu.

15-October-1918 Shirdi ke Saibaba' better known as 'Saibaba' passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was saint to all caste and creed people.

15-October-1921 Gul Muhammad, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman), was born in Lahore.

15-October-1921 Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P.

15-October-1931 Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as ""APJ"", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technology. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. 

15-October-1932 First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines)

15-October-1943 Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away.

15-October-1946 Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.

15-October-1946 Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India.

15-October-1949 Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged.

15-October-1961 Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', famous Hindi poet, writer, editor, social worker and litterateur, died in Allahabad.

15-October-1972 Nirmalkumar Bose, great Indian human scientist, died.

15-October-1977 The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.

15-October-1987 Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India.

15-October-1990 Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour.

15-October-1992 Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab.

15-October-1994 SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV.

15-October-1995 PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.

15-October-1996 H.D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, launched the concluding ceremony of the 85th year of ICMR at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. He also gave away the ICMR Prizes and Awards (1994-95) to outstanding bio-medical scientists of India.

15-October-1996 Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives.

15-October-1996 Kerala CM Nayanar says Governors are not necessary in states.15-October-1997Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel ""The God of Small Things'.

15-October-1999 Maharashtra Governor P. C. Alexander asks both the BJP-Shiv Sena combine and the Congress(I) for proof.

15-October-2000 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand.

Events for October 14

14-October-1884 Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, was born at Delhi.
14-October-1885 Mukandi Lal, famous Hindi writer, was born in Chamoli at U.P.
14-October-1910 Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
14-October-1919 Raghu Karmkar, famous cinephotographer, was born.
14-October-1930 The Flag of Freedom' or 'Swaraj Toran' a feature film produced by Prabhat Film Co.Kolhapur was prohibited by the Censor Board on October 14, 1930 on the grounds that it was objectionable in the existing political situation. The film, however, was cleared only after deleting certain portions and the title changed to 'Udaykal'.
14-October-1940 Cliff Richards [Harry Webb], rock vocalist, was born in Lucknow, India.
14-October-1947 Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died.
14-October-1953 Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died.
14-October-1955 Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
14-October-1956 Dr. Bhimrao Ramji, Ambedkar and about two lakh scheduled caste men and women embraced Buddhism in Nagpur.
14-October-1980 S. N. Banerjee, cricketer--one Test for India and 249 runs 10th wkt stand on tour, died.
14-October-1985 Assam Ganparishad established.
14-October-1989 Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party.
14-October-1991 Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died.
14-October-1992 10 Indians sentenced to six years in jail in the UAE on account of staging a play in Sharjah.
14-October-1994 Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died.
14-October-1996 Sukh Ram granted bail.
14-October-1997 The two millionth Maruti vehicle rolled out.
14-October-1997 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex.
14-October-1998 Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics.
14-October-1998 Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
14-October-1999 Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan.

Events for October 13

13-October-1240 Radiya Sultan, first lady ruler of Delhi throne, passed away in a battle.
13-October-1679 More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm.
13-October-1781 A treaty was singed between the Britishers and ruler of Gwalior, Scindia.
13-October-1877 Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born.
13-October-1905 Sister Nivedita died.
13-October-1911 Ashok Kumar Ganguly, famous film actor, was born. He is the recipient of Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
13-October-1911 Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died.
13-October-1967 Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died.
13-October-1971 Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born.
13-October-1978 Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress.
13-October-1987 Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay.
13-October-1989 Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha.
13-October-1991 Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi.;
13-October-1991 PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
13-October-1991 Shatrughan Sinha, film star, decides to contest New Delhi Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket against Rajesh Khanna, the Congress nominee.
13-October-1998 Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department.
13-October-1998 India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers.
13-October-1999 Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.
13-October-1999 Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka.
13-October-1999 No change in portfolios of Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Fernandes.
13-October-1999 Chandrababu Naidu, TDP leader, said that his party would support the NDA Government unconditionally.

Events for October 12

12-October-1860 Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73.
12-October-1907 Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
12-October-1911 Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
12-October-1921 Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona.
12-October-1935 Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born.
12-October-1946 Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay.
12-October-1952 Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand.
12-October-1961 Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died.
12-October-1967 National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India.
12-October-1967 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader, died at the Willingdon Nursing Home, New Delhi. He had founded the 'Praja Socialist Party' in 195
12-October-1976 Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died.
12-October-1976 Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay.
12-October-1990 Government of India announces a 15\% cut in oil consumption, exempting LPG and kerosene.
12-October-1991 Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.
12-October-1993 National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.
12-October-1993 RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
12-October-1993 The first operational sortie in Somalia was undertaken with the Brigade Commander and his Deputy on board to recede the area of responsibility in and around Baidoa which was to be the bridage's permanent location.
12-October-1995 Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
12-October-1997 India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title.
12-October-1997 Leander-Mahesh claim sixth doubles title of the year when they bagged the Heinekin Open ATP Tour series doubles in Singapore.
12-October-1997 Queen Elizebeth II, accompanied by husband Duke of Edinburgh Philips, arrived in New Delhi on a week-long state visit to mark India's 50th anniversary of Independence.
12-October-1998 Sushma Swaraj is sworn in Delhi Chief Minister in place of Mr. Sahib Singh Verma.
12-October-1999 Sachidanand Sakshi, former BJP MP, joined SP.
12-October-2000 A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'.

Events for October 11

11-October-1737 A violent earthquake and cyclone hit Calcutta which claimed 3,00,000 lives.
11-October-1876 Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
11-October-1894 Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
11-October-1902 Loknayak Jayprakash Harsudayal Narayan, veteran socialist leader, was born at Sitabdiara village (border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) in Bihar. He was awarded Bharat Ratna on Dec. 23, 1998 and played a key role in formation of Janta Party which defeated Indian National Congress for the first time.
11-October-1923 Harish Chandra was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world.
11-October-1927 Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad.
11-October-1941 Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born.
11-October-1962 Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives.
11-October-1968 Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee)
11-October-1984 Khanderao M. Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5.50 for India), died.
11-October-1986 Mother Teresa escapes unhurt from a plane crash which killed six in Tanzania.
11-October-1988 Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President.
11-October-1991 BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land.
11-October-1991 Meghalaya placed under President's rule.
11-October-1991 Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
11-October-1993 CBI files chargesheet against stock-broker Hiten Dalal and 3 others for defrauding Canbank Mutual Fund over Rs.102 crore.
11-October-1994 Molly Chacko at Hiroshima sets record for 3000m (Women) in 9.06.42.
11-October-1996 Supreme Court ruling on change of venue of Rao's trial.
11-October-1999 Congress (I) Ministry under the leadership of Mukut Mithi is sworn-in in Arunachal Pradesh.
11-October-1999 Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.

Events for October 10

10-October-1756 Clive sailed from Madras, to capture Calcutta, with a large naval fleet consisting of 900 European and 1500 Indian soldiers along with 5 battle ships, and 5 other vessels.
10-October-1844 Badruddin Taibjee, lawyer and leader, was born.
10-October-1896 Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, was born at Jorhat, Assam.
10-October-1899 Shripad Amrit Dange, socialist and Trade Union Leader, was born.
10-October-1906 Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born.
10-October-1909 Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra.
10-October-1910 Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, famous doctor who worked in China, was born at Solapur, Maharashtra.
10-October-1927 Bansilal, leader of Lokdal Party, was born.
10-October-1937 Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born.
10-October-1946 Noakhali Massacre.
10-October-1952 US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
10-October-1954 First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'.
10-October-1957 Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
10-October-1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in north India attack.
10-October-1964 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa sets record for 110m Her. in 14.09s at Tokyo.
10-October-1964 Ravi Shankar performs at Town Hall in New York.
10-October-1964 Olympics opened at Tokyo.
10-October-1964 Gurudutt, famous film actor, died.
10-October-1970 Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
10-October-1973 Vikash Dhorsoo, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Harfleur, Le Havre, France.
10-October-1977 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini.
10-October-1978 Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
10-October-1990 Following political uncertainties in the wake of Veerendra Patil's decision to stay on in defiance of Congress Party's decision, President's rule was imposed in Karnataka.
10-October-1990 Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pradesh killing more than 60.
10-October-1991 Anantrao Laxmanrao Kulmarni, editor of monthly magzine 'Sajjangad' and weekly 'Samarth', died.
10-October-1993 Helicopters along with the last batch of personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. These helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
10-October-1995 G. R Khairnar, the high profile suspended Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, was reinstated.
10-October-1996 UP polls throw up a hung assembly.
10-October-1998 Justice Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand was appointed as the Chief Justice of India.
10-October-1998 Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India.
10-October-1998 Uzma Khan and Nitin Kirtane bag the women's and men's crowns in the national tennis championships in Delhi.
10-October-1999 Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra.
10-October-2000 The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.

Events for October 9

9-October-1874 Nicholas Roerich, great professor, master, artist, scientist, educator, writer, designer, poet, explorer and humanitarian, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He led artistic and scientific expedition in Himalayas and settled in Kulu valley.
9-October-1877 Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa.
9-October-1931 Air Force was established.
9-October-1942 Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the national flag at Jail Gate of Lahore. She was then arrested and send to Ambala Jail.
9-October-1945 British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
9-October-1946 Jinnah's 9-point demands conveyed to Congress.
9-October-1947 P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace.
9-October-1949 The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General.
9-October-1963 Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died.
9-October-1964 K. M. George established the Kerala Congress Party.
9-October-1968 Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
9-October-1970 Production of Uranium 233 started at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Bombay.
9-October-1976 International Dialing Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London.
9-October-1978 Asian Games begin in Bangkok.
9-October-1987 Official Languages Rules, 1976 amended.
9-October-1992 Sukha and Jinda, assassins of former army chief Gen. A. S. Vaidya, hanged in Pune jail.
9-October-1993 C. R. Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India, 8 runs @ 2.66, 9 wkts @ 54.78), passed away.
9-October-1994 Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.
9-October-1996 27-member ministry of National Conference headed by its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah sworn-in in J&K.
9-October-1996 PVN Rao granted anticipatory bail in St. Kitts forgery case till Oct. 14.
9-October-1997 Forest brigand Veerappan kidnapped 21 persons and later released 13 tourists. He detained six people --Dr. Mythi of Indian Institute of Horticulture Research Centre, Bangalore, two drivers, pumpset attender and two photographers.
9-October-1999 Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
9-October-2000 The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
9-October-2000 A special court convicts former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha and her associate Sasikala and sentences them to undergo three years imprisonment and two years rigorous imprisonment in two 'Tansi land deal' cases.
9-October-2000 The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle.