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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
Date | Event Name |
05/05/1479 |
Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
05/05/1818 |
Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
05/05/1903 |
Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
05/05/1903 |
Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
05/05/1906 |
Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
05/05/1916 |
Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
05/05/1929 |
Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay. |
05/05/1930 |
Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
05/05/1932 |
Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away. |
05/05/1942 |
Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
05/05/1944 |
Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
05/05/1946 |
Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
05/05/1947 |
Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
05/05/1955 |
Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce. |
05/05/1966 |
Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
05/05/1971 |
India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
05/05/1972 |
Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
05/05/1977 |
Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
05/05/1983 |
Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away. |
05/05/1986 |
Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha. |
05/05/1989 |
Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
05/05/1992 |
Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
05/05/1993 |
Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], famous Indian guru, passed away at 73 yrs. |
05/05/1994 |
Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader. |
05/05/1998 |
Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
05/05/2000 |
Supreme Court permits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha (petitioner) to have herself and the others examined as ''defence witnesses'' in connection with the trial of the 'Colour TV scam case'. |
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Other Historical Dates and Events |
03/22/1932 | Indian Muslims break with Great Britain. |
08/03/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
09/05/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
12/01/1960 | Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964. |
10/31/1885 | St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi. |
05/06/1997 | 12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi. |
10/31/1991 | Karsevaks' hoist flags on Masjid in Ayodhya. |
11/01/1974 | Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996 ), was born in Hyderabad. |
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