This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 16
16-March-1527
Rana Sangram Singh, King
of Mewad, attacked on
Mughal Emperor Babur
near Kanwa at Agra.
16-March-1556
Amarsingh, Rajput king of
Mewar, was born.
16-March-1599
Shahaji Raje Bhosale,
father of Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj, was born.
16-March-1832
Sarfoji Bhosle, King of
Tanjawar, passed away.
16-March-1860
Dr. W.M. Haffkine, great
scientist, bacteriologist and
professor, was born at
Odessa in Russia.
16-March-1877
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi,
famous poet, Gujarati
litterateur and
Headmaster, was born.
16-March-1880
Parshuram Rajshekhar
Basu, famous Bengali
writer, was born.
16-March-1901
Pralhad Balacharya
Gajendragadkar, Chief
Justice of Supreme Court of
India, was born.
16-March-1902
A. Appadorai, educationist
and author, was born at
Angadipuram, Kerala.
16-March-1910
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi,
cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi
sr, England & India), was
born in Pataudi, Punjab.
16-March-1912
Gandhiji commends
Gokhale's attempts for
abolition of indenture
system.
16-March-1924
Bhupendranath Basu, great
freedom fighter, President
of Congress and fluent
orator, passed away.
16-March-1928
C.V. Raman announced his
discovery of ''new
radiation'' to an assembly
of scientists at Bangalore.
16-March-1939
Subroto Mukherjee became
the first Indian Officer to
command a squadron when
he took over No.1.
16-March-1945
Ganesh Damodar Savarkar,
who was a revolutionary
and brother of Swatantriya
Veer Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar, passed away.
16-March-1946
India calls Attlee's
independence offer
contradictory, 'a
propaganda move'.
16-March-1946
Alladiya Khan, famous
singer of Kolhapur Darbar,
passed away.
16-March-1966
Judge Amal Kumar Sarkar
became the Chief Justice of
India. He held this office
till 29/06/1966.
16-March-1977
Sixth General Election of
India begins.
16-March-1986
Internationally wanted
criminal Charles Sobharaj
and 6 other prisoners
escape from Tihar Jail.
16-March-1992
Satyajit Ray, veteran film
producer and director, was
presented the honorary
Oscar by a three-member
Oscar committee at a
Calcutta nursing home.
16-March-1993
Bomb blast in a multi-
storey building in Calcutta
kills 70 people.
16-March-1993
Central government
introduces pension scheme
for 170 million EPF
subscribers.
16-March-1995
K. Karunakaran resigns as
CM of Kerala; Finance
Minister presents Central
Budget.
16-March-1995
World's best 7th wkt stand
of 461 runs by Bhupinder
Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.
16-March-1997
The first batch of three
Russian-made Sukhoi-30
combat aircraft reaches
India.
16-March-1997
Saidian Shafi,
correspondent, Ankhon
Dekhi', TV news magazine,
and his personal security
officer killed by militants in
Srinagar.
16-March-1998
Sonia Gandhi is elected
chairperson of the
Congress(I) Parliamentary
Party.
16-March-1999
Amarjeet Kaypee of
Haryana, during an innings
of 148 against Madhya
Pradesh in the super-
league match at
Rajnandgaon, overtook
Ashok Malhotra's 7,274
runs and became the
highest run-getter in Ranji
Trophy.
16-March-1999
The Shiromani Akali Dal
creates a record by
unanimously electing Bibi
Jagir Kaur Begowal as the
first woman president of
the SGPC.
16-March-2000
Rabri Devi, Bihar Chief
Minister, wins trust vote.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 17
17-March-1527
Rana Sangram Singh, King
of Mewad, fought Babur
near Kanwa at Agra and
lost the battle and died
thereafter. He had vowed
not to enter Chittogarh
without a victory.
17-March-1769
To establish the business
of English Mill's Cloth, East
Indiian Company had
imposed various restriction
on weavers of Bengal to
destroy the Muslim and
textile industry in Bengal ,
which was meant to destroy
the Indian cloth and
'malmal' industry.
17-March-1782
Salby Teaty was singed
between Anderson (British)
and Scindia for the
Maratha and East India
Company.
17-March-1798
Rani Shiromani anounced
to attack the British Army.
17-March-1863
Sayajirao Gaekwad of
Baroda was born.
17-March-1882
Vishnushastri Chiplunkar,
father of modern Marathi
language, passed away.
17-March-1905
Narsinghcharya Purohit
Tirunarayan Iyyangar,
famous Kannad poet, music
director and critic, was
born.
17-March-1909
Pandit Ramchandra
Narayan Dandekar,
educationist and
internationally famed
Sanskrit scholar, was born
at Satara, Maharashtra.
17-March-1910
Smt. Anutai Wagh, great
social worker, passed away.
17-March-1920
Mujiburr Rahman, the first
Prime Minister of
Bangladesh, was born in
Tungipara now in
Bangladesh.
17-March-1943
Indian troops retreat from
Rathedaung to Buthidaung
in the face of a renewed
Japanese offensive on the
Arakan front in Burma.
17-March-1955
Indian Standard's Institute
started working to control
the quality of Indian
products and the ISI mark
was issued to quality
products.
17-March-1957
New Central Cabinet under
J. L. Nehru sworn in.
17-March-1959
Dalai Lama XIV flees from
Tibet after Chinese military
occupied Tibet.
17-March-1967
4th Parliament (Lok Sabha)
was formed.
17-March-1982
President's rule in Kerala.
17-March-1985
Dattu Phadkar, cricketer
(Indian all-rounder, 31
Tests 1947-58), passed
away.
17-March-1987
Sunil Gavaskar ends his
Test career with an innings
of 96 v Pak.
17-March-1988
First operational Indian
Remote Sensing Satellite
(IRS-1A) launched by a
Russian Vostok. IRS system
under National Natural
Resources Management
System (NNRMS)
coordinated at national
level by the Planning
Committee of NNRMS (PC-
NNRMS) and the data from
IRS satellites is processed
by the National Remote
Sensing Agency,
Hyderabad. SI, a US
Company, also receives and
markets IRS data worldwide
under a commercial
contract with Antrix
Corporation of the
Department of Space.
17-March-1989
Daily newspaper 'Sakal'
published its edition in
South Maharashtra.
17-March-1989
Hemwati Nandan
Bahuguna, president of Lok
Dal (B) and former Union
Minister, passed away.
17-March-1991
The first Indian Remote
Sensing Satellite IRS-IA
completes three years of
successful operation.
(18-3-91).
17-March-1992
Suburban rail fare increase
cut; 20\% hike in first class,
second class A/C sleeper
and chair car reduced to
15\%.
17-March-1994
Wali Mohammad Itto,
former Speaker of J&K
Assembly shot dead by
militants.
17-March-1995
Congress-I in Arunachal
Pradesh wins two-third
majority.
17-March-1997
Cochin Stock Exchange goes
online.
17-March-1997
A Delhi court sentences
former Union Minister
Kalpnath Rai to 10 years
RI.
17-March-1999
An international seminar
on UN Peacekeeping was
co-jointly hosted by
Ministry of External affairs
and Ministry of Defence at
New Delhi from 17 to 19
March 1999. The seminar
was conducted by HQ Army
Training Command, Shimla
on behalf of the Indian
Army. A total of 126 foreign
delegates from 71 countries
participated in the
seminar.
17-March-1999
GM Dibyendu Barua and
IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both
India) won the men's and
women's titles respectively
in the Asian Zonal chess
championship in Mumbai.
17-March-2000
V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor,
accords sanction to the CBI
to prosecute RJD president
Laloo Prasad Yadav in a
disproportionate assets
case.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 18
18-March-1896
Pandit Kunjilal Dubey,
freedom fighter,
educationalist and
politician, was born at
Amgaon, District
Narsinghpur.
18-March-1915
British Government
approved Indian Security
Act to have greater
control on the Indian
people.
18-March-1916
Pratapsinh Mathuradas
Vissanji, great
industrialist, was born at
Bombay.
18-March-1919
Rowlatt Act, intended to
perpetuate the
extraordinary powers
enjoyed by the
Government under Lord
Chelmsford during the
war, provokes countrywide
protests. This Rowlatt Act
was forced instead of 1915
Indian Security Act which
reduced freedom of
Indian people.
18-March-1922
Mohandas K. Gandhi
""Mahatma,"" the great
spirit, sentenced by
British authorities to six
years in prison for
sedition at Sabarmati.
Gandhi was sentenced
just eight days after he
was arrested. The British
acted hastily after
government officials in
London and India were
criticized for not arresting
him sooner. In London,
the Secretary of State for
India was forced to resign
because of the
controversy over Gandhi.
In India, the arrests of
Gandhi and other Indian
nationalists had only
increased sympathy for
their ca
18-March-1924
Madhusudhan
Ramachandra Rege,
cricketer (15 runs in only
Test India v WI 1948-49),
was born in Panvel,
Maharashtra.
18-March-1938
Shashi Kapoor, famous
film producer, director,
actor and dramatist, was
born in Calcutta. He has
made sucessful films like
Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and
Dust, etc.
18-March-1944
Subhash Chandra Bose
formed Azad Hind Fauz
and took control of
Kohima-Imphal.
18-March-1944
Azad Hind Fauj entered
India (Japanese army)
from the border of Burma
and invaded north
eastern India.
18-March-1948
Socialist Party of India
(SPI) disassociates itself
from the Congress.
18-March-1948
Eknath Dhondu Solkar,
cricketer (India 1969-77,
brilliant short-leg fielder),
was born in Bombay. He
is recipient of Arjun
Award (1973).
18-March-1953
Backward Classes
Commission inaugurated.
18-March-1972
First Indian Book Fair was
organised by National
Book Trust in New Delhi.
18-March-1974
Buddhadev Basu, modern
Bengali poet, story writer,
playwright and critic,
passed away.
18-March-1990
Devi Lal, Deputy PM,
withdraws his resignation.
18-March-1991
West Bengal opts for
assembly poll.
18-March-1992
Shreyanprasad Jain,
famous philanthropist
and industrialist, passed
away.
18-March-1996
President confers
gallantry awards on 65
personnel of the defence
forces.
18-March-1997
Indo-Bangladesh
friendship treaty, signed
25 years ago, expires.
18-March-1998
A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime
Minister-designate,
releases the 'national
agenda for governance' in
New Delhi. It is silent on
the Ram temple issue,
scrapping of Article 370
and a uniform civil code.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 19
19-March-1848
Lokhitwadi started his column
'Shatpatra' in the newspaper
named 'Prabhakar'.
19-March-1907
Dr. Dilawar Hussain, right-
handed batsman and wicket-
keeper, was born.
19-March-1911
Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket
test empire and 10 test
1955-65, was born in Bengal. He
also played Hockey and
Football. He is the aurthor of
""Manual of Cricket Umpires""
and ""Technique of Umpiring H
19-March-1935
British fire on 20,000 Muslims,
killing 23.
19-March-1936
Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was
born.
19-March-1936
Raghav Kaneria, great artist and
decorator, was born.
19-March-1939
Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian
bat 112 on debut v England
1959), was born in Hyderabad.
19-March-1944
Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the
National Flag for the first time
in North East India. On this
event Bimal Roy produced the
film 'Pehla Aadmi'.
19-March-1954
The first helicopter S-55 arrived
at Bombay by sea.
19-March-1962
Raja Kelkar Museum, which
belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar
Kelkar, was opened for the
people.
19-March-1972
India and Bangladesh singed
mutual aid treaty for peace and
friendship for 25 years.
19-March-1973
Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.
19-March-1982
President's rule in Assam.
19-March-1982
Acharya J. B. Kripalani, writer,
nationalist, parliamentarian,
founder of Kissan Mazdoor Dal
and president of Indian
National Congress in 1946,
passed away at the age of 94.
19-March-1990
Madhu Dandavate,Union
Finance Minister, submits Rs.
7,206 crore deficit budget with
a mixed bag of new levies and
concessions.
19-March-1995
Vinaychandra Maudgal, founder
of Gandharva Mahavidyalay of
Delhi and music expert, passed
away.
19-March-1996
Election Commission announces
dates of Lok Sabha elections
(Apr. 27, May 2, 7 & 21) and
Assembly elections in Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, Haryana, West
Bengal, Assam & Pondicherry.
19-March-1997
BJP and BSP agree for a
coalition government in Uttar
Pradesh.
19-March-1998
BJP-led coalition government is
sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee
became the second time Prime
Minister of India.
19-March-1998
Abdul Rauf Seddiopui,
Samajwadi Party leader, is shot
dead near Jadharpur village in
Bareilly district.
19-March-1998
E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran
communist leader of CPM and
Kerala's first Chief Minister,
passed away in
Thiruvananthapuram at the age
of 88.
19-March-1999
Salgaocar emerged National
Football League champions in
Calcutta with a match to spare.
19-March-1999
The banned Maoist Communist
Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at
Senari village in Jehanabad
district in Bihar.
19-March-2000
Bill Clinton, US President,
arrives to a warm welcome in
India. This was the first
presidential visit of a US head
in two decades.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 20
20-March-1351
Muhammad Tughluq Shah
II passed away at Sindh.
20-March-1602
United East India Company
of the Netherlands i.e.
Dutch East India Company
was chartered by States-
General of Holland. During
its 96-year history, it
became one of the world's
most powerful companies.
20-March-1782
Colonel James Tod, author
and researcher of Rajput
history, was born.
20-March-1904
Charles Freer Andrews came
to India as a Christian
Missionary and joined the
staff of St. Stephen's
College in Delhi.
20-March-1920
Usha Mehta, freedom
fighter, was born at Satara.
Her name is closely
attached with freedom
movement via Bombay
Radio, as she and Babubhai
Prasad and Vitthalbhai
Zaveri founded this Radio
and started motivating
people of India with their
telecasts.
20-March-1921
Dr. P. C. Alexander,
Governor of Maharashtra,
was born.
20-March-1925
Marquess Curzon of
Kedleston died this
morning at age 66 from
complications following an
operation. Long a kingpin of
the Conservative party, Lord
Curzon spent 40 years in
public life, serving as
Viceroy and Governor
General of India and, at the
end of his career, as
Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. Though he
came close to becoming
prime minister in 1923, his
aristocratic past militated
against him in an era which
nominated leaders from the
House of Commons. He
twice wed US women and
enjoyed fame as an author
of books about politics and
his own travels.
20-March-1926
For the first time in the
history of the competition,
Scotland beats England for
rugby's Calcutta Cup in
London.
20-March-1937
England beat Scotland at
Murrayfield for the first
time for Soccer's Calcutta
Cup, International
Championship and Triple
Crown, UK.
20-March-1951
Madanlal Udhouram
Sharma, cricketer (Indian
medium pacer in the 70's),
was born in Amritsar.
20-March-1952
Anand Armitraj, great
Indian tennis player
(Brother of Vijay), was born.
20-March-1959
For the first time, officials
of the Indian government
confirmed reports of
widespread resistance to
the Chinese occupying
forces in Tibet. Open
warfare erupted in the
capital city of Lhasa.
20-March-1965
Venkataraghavan takes 8-72
vs New Zealand at Delhi.
20-March-1970
Establishment of Muslim
Satyashodhak Samaj.
20-March-1977
General Election (6th) of
India ends. First time
Indian National Congress
Party lost in India.
20-March-1991
Simultaneous polls in Tamil
Nadu.
20-March-1992
Satyajit Ray, veteran film
producer and director, was
presented the 'Bharat
Ratna' Award at Calcutta.
20-March-1993
Kondapally Seetaramaiah,
founder of the Peoples War
Group of Naxalities in
Andhra Pradesh, arrested.
20-March-1993
Memon brothers, the prime
suspects in the Bombay
bomb blasts, escape from
Dubai.
20-March-1994
Pakistan closes down its
consulate in Bombay.
20-March-1997
Greek instrumental
composer Yanni
Chryssomallis's 'Freedom
Concert' held at the Taj,
Agra.
20-March-1997
Maharashtra (like H.P.)
proposes to make carrying
for aged parents
mandatory.
20-March-1998
Rajesh Kumar Singh, CPI
(ML) leader, is shot at
Pandeypur village in Patna.
20-March-2000
Unidentified militants gun
down 35 Sikhs in the south
Kashmir village of Chatti
Singhpora in one of the
worst incidents of violence
in the State.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 21
21-March-1791
Tipu Sultan capitulated to
Lord Cornwallis.
21-March-1836
National Library was
established.
21-March-1916
Ustad Bismilla Khan, clarionett
Master, was born at Dumraon
in Bihar.
21-March-1921
Indian National Congress
decided it's Flag.
21-March-1934
Buta Singh, former Home
Minister of India, was born.
21-March-1937
Muhammad Jaffer, great
Indian Hockey player, was
born.
21-March-1939
Gandhi calls on world to
disarm, thinks Hitler would
follow.
21-March-1957
India's national calender
came into force.
21-March-1966
Indian Remote Sensing
Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into
polar orbit. This carries
remote sensing payload and
an X-ray astronomy payload.
Launched by third
developmental flight of India's
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
(PSLV-D3) which is for
launching 1,000-1,200 kg class
of remote sensing satellites
into polar sun-synchronous
orbit. Still in service.
21-March-1971
Gavaskar scores the first of his
34 Test tons, 116 at
Georgetown.
21-March-1973
Yashwant Ramkrishna Date,
great Marathi dictionary
creator, passed away.
21-March-1976
The Indian people have
delivered a stinging rebuke to
the woman who had ruled
them without the benefit of a
constitution for the past 19
months by dumping her from
office in a landslide election.
After 11 years of rule, Indira
Gandhi has resigned, and in
an uncharacteristically humble
statement said she ""accepted
the verdict unreservedly"" and
promised ""constructive
cooperation"" with the new
government. The heads of the
victorious parties immediately
dropped the year-and-a-half-
old state of emergency, freed
political prisoners, and began
negotiations over who would
head the new gov
21-March-1977
Internal Emergency,
promulgated on June 25, 1975,
withdrawn by Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi.
21-March-1979
The Cytology Research Centre
was set up at New Delhi
(renamed as the Institute of
Cytology and Preventive
Oncology in 1988).
21-March-1979
Morarji Desai, PM,
inaugurated the Backward
Classes Commission in New
Delhi.
21-March-1982
Nadmuri Tarak Rama Rao
forms Telugu Desam Party in
Andhra Pradesh.
21-March-1992
India's second submarine
'Shankul' joined Navy.
21-March-1993
The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi
stretch of the west coast
Konkan rail line opened by
the PM.
21-March-1994
Pakistan blocks access to
Indian consulate in Karachi.
21-March-1995
A.K. Antony elected CM of
Kerala.
21-March-1995
Lok Sabha passes Patent Bill
by amending the Patent
(Amendment) Act 1970.
21-March-1996
PSLV-D3 launched
successfully.
21-March-1996
Supreme Court holds that
attempt to suicide and its
abetment would continue to
be punishable offences.
21-March-1997
Foreign currency reserves of
RBI stand at $16 billions,
which was a record of sorts.
21-March-1997
Seven Kashmiri Pandits
gunned down by militants in
Sangrampura.
21-March-1997
Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake
Open billiards in Chennai.
21-March-1997
Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
21-March-1998
Jaswant Singh is appointed
Deputy Chairman of the
Planning Commission after the
resignation of Prof. Madhu
Dandavate.
21-March-2000
The 10,000 bond scheme for
short-term visitors to the UK
will not be applied to India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh, said
British Minister of State for
Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs Keith Vaz.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 22
22-March-1709
It is assumed that Goswami
Tulsidas started writing his
great epic 'Ramcharitmanas'
in Samvat 1631.
22-March-1739
Nadir Shah entered Delhi.
He gave the signal to one of
his soldiers from Sunheri
mosque.
22-March-1793
Lord Cornwallis promulgated
permanent settlement in
Bengal and Bihar to fix the
revenue amounts once and
for all to be paid by the
zamindars every year.
22-March-1885
Gulam Yazdani, great
archaeologist and critic, was
born.
22-March-1893
Surya Sen, alias Masterda,
revolutionary freedom
fighter, was born.
22-March-1902
Great Britain and Persia
agree to link Europe and
India by telegraph.
22-March-1906
Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant,
educationalist, was born.
22-March-1907
Perturbed by a new law
restricting Asiatic
immigrants, Mohandas
Gandhi, a young Indian
attorney now living in South
Africa, organized a campaign
of civil disobedience to
resist the statute popular
bill passed by the new Boer
government of the Transvaal
Colony. The Asiatic
Registration Bill was
considered by Gandhi unjust
and discriminatory to the
large Chinese and Indian
populations. However, the
government expressed the
belief that the ordinance
was popular. ""Over 90
percent of the white people
thoroughly approve of it,""
said Sir Gilbert Parker, a
Conservative member of
Parliam
22-March-1914
M. L. Bhowmik, social
reformer and politician, was
born Kailashahar, Tripura.
22-March-1915
Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi
critic, was born.
22-March-1932
Indian Muslims break with
Great Britain.
22-March-1933
M.V.Nagendra, cricket test
umpire for 11 tests from
1963-77, was born at
Karnataka.
22-March-1938
IRFA was registered as a
local body not administered
by the Government on
March 22, 1938 under the
Government of India Act No.
XXI of 1860.
22-March-1942
Both Congress and Muslim
League refused Cripps
Mission offer. Congress
adopts Quit India
Resolution. Cripps
Commission came to India
which was preceded by Sir
Stephard Crips to find out a
political formula for transfer
of power to Indians.
22-March-1947
India's Last Viceroy Lord
Louise Mountbatten came to
India.
22-March-1949
SSC Examination system
started.
22-March-1957
National Calander based on
Saka Samvat was adopted.
As per this calander, the
date of adoption was
""Chaitra first, 1879 Saka
along with Gregorian.
22-March-1961
Jual Teria Dilga Oram was
born in Kendudihi, Distt.
Sundargarh (Orissa).
22-March-1963
World Bank loans India $ 67
mil. to improve its railways.
22-March-1964
200 die in communal
violence in the industrial
towns of Jamshedpur and
Rourkela.
22-March-1969
The first public sector
petrochemical organisation
was inaugurated.
22-March-1971
Shri Hanuman Prasad
Poddar, great social
reformer, revolutionary and
poet, passed away.
22-March-1977
Indira Gandhi-led Indian
National Congress party lost
the 6th general election of
India. She resigned as Pime
Minister of India.
22-March-1977
Janata and its allies gain
absolute majority in Lok
Sabha.
22-March-1977
Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan,
freedom fighter, social
reformer and Marxist leader,
passed away in Trivandrum.
22-March-1991
Chautala sworn in as
Haryana CM.
22-March-1991
President withholds assent
to the pension bill of
Members of Parliament.
22-March-1993
The Lok Sabha passes the
Indian Medical Council
(Amendment) Bill, 1993 and
the Dentists (Amendment)
Bill, 1993.
22-March-1996
Golden Temple renamed
Harmandir Sahib (its
original name meaning
'abode of God').
22-March-1997
Deshabhimani daily, official
organ of CPI (M), launches
its 5th edition from
Kottayam, Kerala.
22-March-1999
57 prisoners in Indian and
Pakistan jails are repatriated
to their respective
motherlands at the Attari-
Wagah joint checkpost on
the border in Amristar
district.
22-March-1999
Punjab men, Railway women
emerged National basketball
champions in Jaipur.
22-March-2000
INSAT-3B launched.
22-March-2000
India's first third generation
satellite 'Insat-3B' put in
orbit by Europe's latest
Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou
in French Guyana.
22-March-2000
P.Shanmugham sworn in
Chief Minister of
Pondicherry.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 23
23-March-1351
Firuz Shah Tughluq
(1351-88), nephew of
Muhammad Tughluq,
succeded as emperor of
Delhi.
23-March-1596
Chandbibi made treaty with
Murad and gave 'Varhad'
area to Mughals.
23-March-1757
Lord Clive conquered
Chandranagar after
defeating the French
troops.
23-March-1898
Nalinibala Devi, Assamia
poet, was born.
23-March-1910
Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal
Lohia also known as
""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"",
freedom fighter and
socialist leader, was born at
Akbarpur, district Faizabad,
Uttar Pradesh. He had
founded Praja Socialist
Party in 195
23-March-1911
Indranath Bandopadhyay,
Bengali comedy writer and
journalist, passed away.
23-March-1913
Indian Muslim Conference
passes resolution
demanding immediate self-
government.
23-March-1919
Subhadra Joshi, freedom
fighter, was born. She took
active participation in Salt
and non cooperation
movement. She also
motivated the freedom
movement through her
newspaper ""Hamara Sangra
23-March-1923
Shekh Mubarak Ali Ayaj,
Sindhi litterateur, was born.
23-March-1923
Hemu Kalani, revolutionary
freedom fighter, was born at
Sukkur, Sind. He was held
for removing of fishplates
which caused derailment of
British Wagon.
23-March-1931
Bhagat Singh, Shivram
Rajguru and Sukhdev, great
freedom fighters and
revolutionaries, were
hanged for assasination of
Saunders, Assistant
Superintendent of Police in
the Central Jail at Lahore.
Bhagat Singh and his
associates showed no signs
of any fear as they kissed
the noose, chanting
""Inquilab Zindabad"" (long
live the revolution
23-March-1940
All India Muslim League
passed resolution for the
formation of Muslim
homeland i.e. Pakistan.
23-March-1942
Japanese forces occupy
Rangoon, Andaman Islands
in Indian Ocean.
23-March-1942
Second World War was
turning against the British
and they needed the help
of the Indians. So Prime
Minister Churhill sent a
delegation under Sir
Stafford Cripps (Cripps
Mission) to hold talks with
the Indian leaders on the
future of the subcontient in
UK, which could not take
place because of the non-
cooperation movement and
they left after a fortnight.
They submitted their report
in April 1942 which was
rejected by the Congress
and Muslim League.
23-March-1947
Lord Mountbatten was sent
as a Viceroy to India who
was designated to free
India.
23-March-1962
Nawab of Pataudi captains
Indian cricket team vs WI at
the age of 21 years 77 days.
23-March-1967
Pandey Bechain Sharma
(Ugra) passed away.
23-March-1968
Atul Satish Wassan,
cricketer (Indian pace
bowler 1989-90), was born
in Delhi.
23-March-1982
Annasaheb Patil, father of
Maratha Mahasangh,
passed away.
23-March-1986
The first women's company
of Central Reserve Police
Force camp was raised in
Durgapur.
23-March-1992
G. S. Dhillon, former
speaker of Lok Sabha,
passed away.
23-March-1994
Last day of Test cricket for
Kapil Dev.
23-March-1995
Shakti Chattopadhyay,
famous poet, passed away.
23-March-1997
10 Dalits killed in Kab
village of Bihar by Ranbir
Sena, a pro-landlord
extremist organisation.
23-March-2000
Udham Singh (72), hockey
legend, died at his home
town in Sansarpur (near
Jalandhar).

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 24
24-March-1307
Malik Kafur, Alauddin
Khilji's Commander, won
the impregnable fort of
Devgiri. The fort was
entered by the enemy. Raja
Ramdeva was taken prisoner
and sent to Delhi where
Alauddin recieved him
untill his death in 1312.
24-March-1855
First long distance telegram
message was opened
between Agra and Calcutta
at a distance of 1,300 km.
24-March-1896
Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author
and journalist, was born.
24-March-1902
Anusilan Samiti, a
revolutionary organisation,
was formed in Bengal.
24-March-1924
Virendrakumar
Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth
award winner and Assamia
novelist, was born.
24-March-1944
Manmohan Singh, famous
economist and Finance
Minister of India, was born.
24-March-1946
British Cabinet Mission
came to India presided by
Lord Pethick Lawrence.
24-March-1947
Lord Louis Mountbatten
came to India.
24-March-1968
The second Indian-made
rocket 'Menaka' successfully
launched at the Thumba
station.
24-March-1974
Lokprabha weekly started
its publication.
24-March-1977
Morarji Desai elected leader
of Janata Party and sworn in
as the Prime Minister of
India at New Delhi. Later
he formed his cabinet. He
was in the office of Prime
Minister till July 28, 1979.
This was first non-Congress
Government in India.
24-March-1977
Ban on RSS and 26 other
organisations lifted.
24-March-1981
Bombay beat Delhi by an
innings and 46 runs to win
the Ranji Trophy.
24-March-1984
Dilraj Singh, Soccer
(Football) player, was born
in Vancouver, Canada.
24-March-1987
First developmental launch
of new generation rocket
ASLV 'Stretched Rohini
Satellite Series' (SROSS-1).
This carried payload for
launch vehicle performance
monitoring and for gamma
ray astronomy. This
plunged within two minutes
and 40 seconds of its
launching.
24-March-1990
Indian Peace Keeping Force
(IPKF) was withdrawn in toto
from the northern and
eastern provinces of Sri
Lanka.
24-March-1991
Bhau Samarth,
internationaly famed
painter, passed away.
24-March-1992
Congress (I) strength goes
up by six seats in the Rajya
Sabha on account of
biennial polls.
24-March-1993
Six of Memon family escape
to Karachi.
24-March-1995
Devchand Somaiyya, famous
Table Tennis player, passed
away.
24-March-1998
G.M.C. Balayogi of the
Telugu Desam is elected
Speaker of the Lok Sabha as
the candidate of the BJP-
led Government.
24-March-1998
200 people are killed in a
tornado on both sides of
the West Bengal-Orissa
border. The toll includes 80
from West Bengal's
Midnapore district.
24-March-2000
Rupali Repale of India
becomes the first woman
and the youngest to swim
the Robben Island channel-
both ways.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for March 25
25-March-1609
Henry Hudson embarks on
an exploration for Dutch
East India Co. at Pulicat.
25-March-1898
Swami Vivekanand accepted
Sister Nivedita as his
disciple.
25-March-1898
Dalpatrai (Dalpatram
Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern
Gujrati poet, passed away.
25-March-1905
Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous
Indian politician, was born.
25-March-1911
L. D. Swamikannu publishes
""Manual of Indian
Chronology"" in Bom
25-March-1916
S. M. Pandit, famous
painter, was born.
25-March-1920
Sardar Sambhaji
Chandrojirao Angre,
politician and farmer, was
born.
25-March-1927
Leslie Claudius, India field
hockey (Olympic-gold-1948,
52, 56), was born.
25-March-1928
S. R. Kulkarni, leader of
dock workers, was born.
25-March-1931
50 killed in riots in India;
Gandhi assaulted.
25-March-1931
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
matyred in Hindu-Muslim
riot at Kanpur. He was also
the Editor of weekly 'Pratap'.
25-March-1933
Vasantrao Gowarikar, space
scientist, was born.
25-March-1954
The first helicopter S-55
arrived ferried to Delhi. The
Indian Air Force experience
with rotary wing aircraft. It
was indeed a 'red letter
day' in the history of IAF a
befitting gift on its coming
of age ' when the first
helicopter wearing IAF
markings appeared at Palam
in the form of a Sikorsky,
S-55. Such a swift action,
complete involvement and
dedication on the part of
the crew and technicians
was the clear indication of
the standards with which
One-O-Four set about its
tasks for others to emulate.
25-March-1958
Yograjsingh Bhagsingh
Bhundel, cricketer (Indian
pace bowler early 80's), was
born in Chandigarh.
25-March-1963
Yagyawalk Bharadwaj,
famous botany scientist,
passed away.
25-March-1971
Aashish Rakesh Kapoor,
cricketer (Indian off-spin
batsman 1994- ), was born
in Madras.
25-March-1983
Modern oceanographic
research ship of the world
'Sagar Kanya' landed first
time in the sea.
25-March-1983
Chalpati Rao, great
journalist, passed away.
25-March-1987
Marxist-led alliance gets
majority in Kerala and West
Bengal elections .
25-March-1989
India's first super-computer
X-MP-14 of US make was
dedicated to the nation.
25-March-1990
Lakshadweep Council
elections.
25-March-1991
1991 census report
released; India has 844
million people.
25-March-1994
Buta Singh exonerated by
the Akal Takht after 9 years.
25-March-1996
31st Gyanpith award
presented to M.T.
Vasudevan Nair at
Trivandrum by Dr. Karan
Singh.
25-March-1996
CBI gives a clean chit to PM
Rao in the St. Kitts case.
25-March-1997
Justice Jagdish Saran Verma
sworn in Chief Justice of
India.
25-March-1998
Yashwant Sinha, Finance
Minister, and Railway
Minister Nitish Kumar
present the interim budgets
for 1998- 99.
25-March-1999
Arathi Ponnappa,Former
National tennis champion,
called it quits from
competitive tennis in
Bangalore.