This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 20
20-April-1236
Iltutmish, father of Radiya
Sultan, died in Delhi.
20-April-1887
Padmabhushan Jemini
Roy, famous painter, was
born.
20-April-1888
246 reported killed by an
hail storm in Moradabad,
India.
20-April-1914
Gopinath Mahanti,
famous Oriya novelist and
Gyanpeeth awardee, was
born.
20-April-1930
The Viceroy imposes an
ordinance for the
suppression of terrorism,
following a series of
attacks.
20-April-1938
Bhartacharya
Chintamanrao Vinayak
Vaidya, omnicient
research scientist and
expert of Marathi and
English languages, passed
away.
20-April-1954
Panchsheel agreement
between China and India.
20-April-1960

 

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Pannalal Ghosh, famous
flute player, passed away.
20-April-1965
First Indian team led by
M. S. Kohli ascends the
Everest.
20-April-1971
Air India started Boing
707 Jumbo Jet flight
between Bombay and
London.
20-April-1971
India won Cricket Test
Rubber' for the first time
after defeating West
Indies Cricket Team.
20-April-1973
Rioting over food
shortages ends after
three days in Nagpur.
20-April-1989
R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice
of India, elected to the
World Court.
20-April-1989
Launching of IRBM `Agni'
fails.
20-April-1989
President's rule imposed
in Karnataka.
20-April-1991
Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat,
famous Marathi film
director and President's
Award winner of 1963,
passed away.
20-April-1992
U. K. Kanitkar, famous
scientist, and professor,
passed away.
20-April-1993
Jharkhand Movement
suspends its 36-days old
economic blockade.
20-April-1997
Sheri Bamboat and
Hamshad Bamboat win
National sea-bird sailing
title.
20-April-2000
A full bench of the
Madras High Court
quashes the Tamil Nadu
Government order making
Tamil (or mother tongue)
as the compulsory
medium of instruction in
all schools in the State
up to Standard V.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 21
21-April-1451
Buhlul Khan Lodi, an
Afghan and founder of Lodi
dynasty, ascends the throne
of Delhi and displaced the
Alam Shah of Syed dynasty.
21-April-1526
Mughal conqueror Babur
Shah (1483-1530) defeats
Ibrahim Lodi II, the Lodi
Sultan of Delhi, and
captures Delhi and the
Koh-i-noor diamond, in the
First Battle of Panipat. He
founded the Mughal
dynasty in India
(1526-1761), consolidated
by his grandson Akbar.
21-April-1659
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
meet Saint Samarth
Ramdas Swami.
21-April-1720
Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath
passed away and was
succeeded by his son
Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a
great soldier and General.
21-April-1805
Defitiniv treaty between
Anandrao Gaikwad and
Britishers.
21-April-1913
Preview show of 'Raja
Harishchandra' was held on
April 21 at Olympia Cinema.
21-April-1938
Muhammad Iqbal, famous
Urdu poet, passed away.
21-April-1946
Srinivasaraghavan
Venkataraghavan, cricket
(Indian off-spinner, Test
umpire, ICC referee), was
born in Madras. He
received Arjun Award (1971)
.

 

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21-April-1955
Avadi session of the Indian
National Congress adopts a
socialistic pattern of society
for India.
21-April-1975
Farakka Barrage dedicated
to nation.
21-April-1990
18 more ministers added in
the National Front Ministry.
21-April-1990
The first indigenously built
missile cruiser boat,
'Vibhuti', was inaugurated
and launched.
21-April-1991
Hastmalji Maharaj,
Jainbhumi parampujya,
passed away.
21-April-1992
RBI eases credit policy,
lending rates reduced from
6 to 4; 13\% interest ceiling
on deposits.
21-April-1992
UN Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali visits
New Delhi.
21-April-1993
India announces
establishing proof in
Pakistan's complicity in
Bombay bomb blasts.
21-April-1994
Malayalam sweeps national
film awards. Mammootty,
Shobhana best actor and
actress; T.V. Chandran best
director; Buddadeb Das
Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar'
adjudged best film.
21-April-1995
Medium range 'Akash',
surface-to-air-missile, flight
trial successful.
21-April-1996
Sanjay Thapar of the IAF
(leader) becomes first
Indian to parachute down
to geometric North pole and
unfurl the flag.
21-April-1997
Inder Kumar Gujaral sworn
as the 12th Prime Minister
of India, along with old
council of ministers in the
H. D. Deve Gowda govt.
minus Tamil Maanila
Congress Minister and D. P.
Yadav of Janata Dal.
21-April-1998
Ashok Kumar, Special
Secretary, Union Home
Ministry, who headed a
Central team to Tamil Nadu
to assess the law and order
situation, was transferred to
the Planning Commission.
21-April-1998
The services of 12 non-
railway chairmen of Railway
Recruitment Boards are
terminated.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 24
24-April-1311
General Malik Kafur
returns to Delhi after
campaign in South India.
24-April-1858
Kunwar Singh,
revolutionary of Indian
mutiny and freedom
fighter, passed away. He
fought his last battle near
Jagdishpur, Bihar on April
23, 1858 and defeated the
Britishers but was deeply
wounded. He also
organised the national
rebels.
24-April-1888
Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief
minister of Assam and
Governor of Madras, was
born at Hajo.
24-April-1918
Durgaprasad Dhar, former
Vice President of Planning
Commission, was born.
24-April-1929
First non-stop flight from
England to India takes-
off.
24-April-1932
450 people seized by
British for defying ban on
Indian National Congress.
24-April-1942
Shri Dinanath
Mangeshkar, famous
Marathi singer,
nationalist, musician and
actor, passed away at the
age of 41.
24-April-1944
Shivprasad Gupta,
philanthropist, freedom
fighter and educationist,
passed away.
24-April-1959
Nehru meets the exiled
Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
24-April-1965
Kosi Barrage inaugurated
by King Mahendra of
Nepal.
24-April-1966
Margashayam
Venkataramana, cricketer
(Indian off-spinner 1989),
was born in
Secunderabad.
24-April-1972
Jamini Roy,
Padmabhushan awardee
and famous painter,
passed away.
24-April-1973
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar,
cricketer (prodigy at 16,
Indian capt at 23), was
born in Bombay.
24-April-1974

 

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Ramdhari Singh alias
'Dinkar', veteran famous
Hindi writer and poet,
passed away.
24-April-1980
Baba Gurbachan Singh,
Nirankari chief,
assassinated. His son
named as the new chief.
24-April-1993
Congress dissidents K. N.
Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L.
Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit
suspended.
24-April-1993
IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing
with 141 persons,
hijacked by a Kashmiri
militant lands, in
Amritsar.
24-April-1994
S. L. Kirloskar, 91,
industrial magnate,
passed away in Pune.
24-April-1995
K. Karunakaran elected to
Rajya Sabha.
24-April-1996
BSE index reaches
3869.87, a new 18-month
high.
24-April-1996
Indian Express launches
Vizag (17th) edition.
24-April-1996
SC holds that bank
managers acting beyond
their authority in allowing
overdrafts and passing
cheques would be
amounted to committing
misconduct.
24-April-1998
India wins the Coca Cola
Cup at Sharjah, beating
Australia by six wickets in
the final.
24-April-1998
24 persons are killed and
28 injured when some
bogies of a goods train
break free and roll back to
collide with the stationary
Manmad-Kacheguda
Express at Parli Vaijnath
in Maharashtra.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 25
25-April-1906
Dara Nusserwanji Marshall,
librarian and educationist,
was born.
25-April-1915
The German High Command
has admitted that chlorine
gas bombs and shells were
used in the attack on the
French front at Ypres three
days ago. The effect of the
gas attack was to open a
four-mile gap in the Allied
line. The Canadian troops
on one flank held against
German attacks, and British
and Indian forces filled the
breach. Fortunately for the
Allies, the Germans had no
reserve forces available to
push into the breach. No
tactical advantage was won
by this first use of the new
weapon. The Germans
promised, however, that
""more effective substances
can be expected.""
Meanwhile, they were
condemned for the use of
this novel wea
25-April-1955
Syed Mohammad Zamin Ali,
great educationist, poet,
editor, writer, professor and
founder-member of the
Hindustani Academy,
passed away.
25-April-1969
Invalappil Mani Vijayan (or
better known as IM Vijayan),
Indian Soccer(Football)
player, was born in Trissur,
Kerala. He was recognised
as Indian Player of the Year
in 1993, 1997, 1999. He
scored the fastest ever
International goal against
Bhutan at the SAF Games
'99, scoring after just 12
seconds.

 

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25-April-1976
India all out for 97 vs West
Indies because five men
absent hurt.
25-April-1982
India's first telecast colour
broadcasting started on
Dordarshan.
25-April-1993
Indian Airlines plane
hijacker shot dead by
commandoes. All 141
persons rescued.
25-April-1998
India protests against
Pakistan raising the Kashmir
issue at the first SAARC
Information Ministers
conference in Dhaka.
25-April-1998
The Government announces
a new salary structure for
university and college
teachers, consequent to the
implementation of the Fifth
Pay Commission
recommendations.
25-April-2000
The Supreme Court clears
the decks for continuing the
trial against AIADMK leader
Jayalalitha in the
controversial ''TANSI land
deal case'' by ''erasing'' the
Madras High Court
judgment discharging her
from the case.
25-April-2000
West Bengal police nab
Belal alias Lalu Mian, the
suspected mastermind
behind the hijacking of
IC-814 IA flight to Kandahar
last December, from a
hideout in North 24
Parganas district.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 26
26-April-1479
Vallabhacharya, founder of
'Pushthimarg Panth', was
born.
26-April-1762
Shyam Shastri, musician
and a great artist of
India, was born at
Tiruvarur.
26-April-1813
Swati Tirunal Ramavarma,
outstanding composer of
Carnatic music in Kerala,
was born in a royal family
of Travancore. (April 26,
1813)
26-April-1841
Bombay Gazette begins
publishing on silk.
26-April-1895
Guru Baksha Singh,
modern Punjabi
litterateur was born.
26-April-1908
Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri,
Chief Justice of Supreme
Court of India, was born.
26-April-1920
Srinivas Ramanujam,
famous Indian
mathematician, passed
away at Chetpet in
Madras.
26-April-1924
Ramabai Ranade, social
reformer, passed away.
She played a major role in
the upliftment of women
in India and founded
Sevasadan in Bombay, a
hostel for the ladies.
26-April-1926
Karachi Autonomous
Region established in
RSFSR (until 1943).
26-April-1929
British fliers make a
record nonstop 4,130-mile
trip from London to India.
26-April-1945
Virinchirpuram
Krishnamurthi
Ramaswamy, cricketer
(Indian Test umpire stood
in 1996 World Cup), was
born in Madras.
26-April-1946
V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket
test umpire for 10 tests
from 1984-till date, was
born at Hyderabad. He
has become one of the
first Indian Test umpires
to be invited to umpire in
a foreign country along
with P. D. Reporter.
26-April-1952
India says U.N. may
disintegrate if powers
block consideration of
issues in small countries.
26-April-1973
Judge A.N. Ray became
the Chief Justice of India.
He helded this office till
28/01/1977.

 

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26-April-1990
V. R. P. Menon, an Air
Force Engineer, broke the
world record in
Chandigargh.
26-April-1991
Syed Shahabuddin filed
nominations for two seats
as a candidate of two
different parties within 24
hours.
26-April-1992
Gyanapith award winner
Prof. V.K.Gokak (82)
passes away.
26-April-1992
Medha Patkar arrested in
Gujarat as the third
Annual Goldman
Environmental Prize of $
60000 is awarded to her.
26-April-1993
Indian Airlines' IC 491
crashes at Aurangabad,
killing 55 passengers.
26-April-1995
Indian Newspaper Society
(INS) calls off stir plans
following Government
conceding a major
demand of the newspaper
industry by putting
newsprint on the Open
General Licence (OGL) and
abolish the condition
requiring newspapers to
buy two tonnes of
indigenous newsprint in
order to import one
tonne.
26-April-1995
SAARC decides to launch
South Asia Preferential
Trade Area (SAPTA).
26-April-1999
India's Atanu Lahiri and
Bhagyashree Thipsay won
the men's and women's
titles respectively in the
Commonwealth chess
championship in Bikaner.
26-April-1999
The President dissolves
Lok Sabha and orders
fresh elections.