This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 28
28-April-1701
John Norris of Britain met
Aurangjeb at Parnela in
South India.
28-April-1740
Thorle BajiRao Peshwa
passed away at
Raverkhedi near the banks
of the Narmada river near
Khargon and his son
Balaji Baji Rao was placed
on his father's throne as
the Peshwa. (22 or 28).
28-April-1848
Utkal Gourab
Madhusudan Das was
born in Calcutta district
in Orissa.
28-April-1936
Abdul Rashid
'Fida' (Kishtwari), great
poet, was born.
28-April-1943
Netaji Subash Chandra
Bose aligned the
Japanese-German
submarine at Medagaskar.
28-April-1945
Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer
(one Test India v NZ 1969)
, was born in Bombay.
28-April-1952
The war between Japan
and India ended.
28-April-1974
Gaganvihari Lallubhai
Mehta, famous economist,
politician and journalist,
passed away.
28-April-1986
Malayalam film
`Chidambaram' directed
by G. Aravindan wins best
feature film award and
Shyam Benegal bags the
Best Director award for
the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
28-April-1992
Vinayak Krishna Gokak,
famous Kannad poet and
Gyanpeeth Awardee,
passed away.
28-April-1993
Troops storm police
complex in Srinagar and
free officials from the
rebelling 2000 policemen.
28-April-1996
EC orders re-polling in 69
booths in four states.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 29
29-April-1639
Delhi's Red fort
construction commenced
by laying the Foundation
Stone by Shah Jahan. This
fort was completed on May
13, 1646.
29-April-1848
Raja Ravi Verma, famous
classic, prolific painter and
great Indian Artist, was
born in Kilimanoor, Kerala.
29-April-1882
Raja Ali Sayyed, leader of
Muslim League, was born.
29-April-1909
Tukdoji Maharaj, social
reformer, modern Saint
and poet, was born at
Yavli in Amravati district,
Maharashtra.
29-April-1924
Purushottam Ramchandra
Behr, famous writer and
Editor of Marathi
literature, was born.
29-April-1936
Zubin Mehta, famous
music conductor (NY
Philharmonic), was born in
Bombay, India.
29-April-1939
Netaji resigned from the
Congress and established
his own party, the Forward
Block and created a
political deadlock in India.
29-April-1947
Abolition of
`untouchability.'
29-April-1948
Natraj Kamakshi, modern
social reformer and
journalist, passed away.
29-April-1954
India accepted Tibet as a
part of China.
29-April-1957
The National Civil Defence
College was founded at
Nagpur as the Central
Emergency Relief Training
Institute (CERTI). It
functions as the training
wing of the Emergency
Relief Organisation of the
Government of India.
29-April-1960
Pandit Balkrishna Sarma
''Navin'', famous Hindi
poet of modern era,
passed away.
29-April-1979
Raja Mahendra Pratap,
great revolutionary
freedom fighter, passed
away in New Delhi at the
age of 93.

 

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29-April-1997
R. N. Malhotra, 71, former
RBI Governor, died.
29-April-1998
India and Myanmar agree
upon steps to ensure
trans-border security,
cooperation in the fight
against trafficking of
narcotics and
implementation of
mutually beneficial cross-
border projects.
29-April-1998
The Reserve Bank reduces
the bank rate by one point
from 10 per cent in its
monetary and credit policy
for the first half of 1998-
99.
29-April-2000
The Army institutes a
high-level court of inquiry
under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku
to look into the causes of
the arms depot
conflagration.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for April 30
30-April-1030
Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni
passed away in his
capital.
30-April-1843
Ramchandra Bhikaji
Gunjikar, marathi novelist
and editor, was born.
30-April-1863
Naval Force East India
Comapny was merged with
the British Naval Fleet.
30-April-1870
Dadasaheb Phalke alias
Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke
was born at
Trymbakeshwar near
Nasik, Maharashtra. He is
remembered as the
'Father of Indian Cinema'.
He produced India's first
feature Film, 'Raja
Harishchandra' and
founded Phalke & Co. at
Bombay. He was a
director, producer, writer,
editor & laboratorian,
portrait photographer and
also a scene-painter.
30-April-1888
Hailsones kill 246 in
Moradabad.
30-April-1896
Maa Anandamayee
(1896-1982), God-
intoxicated yogini and
mystic Bengali saint, was
born at Kheora. Her spirit
lives on in devotees.
30-April-1908
Khudiram Bose along with
Prafulla Chaki had
planned to throw a bomb
at a carriage supposed to
be carrying the tyrannical
magistrate Kingsford.
Unfortunately he was
betrayed and was caught
and finally was sentenced
to death.
30-April-1909
R. Shankar, politician,
journalist and former
Chief Minister of Kerala,
was born.
30-April-1909
Kirpal Prem Nath,
educationist, was born at
Moga (Punjab).
30-April-1909
Sant Tukdoji Maharaj,
great saint, patriot and
social worker, was born at
Yawali, district Amravati.
30-April-1936
Mahatma Gandhi started
staying in Sevagram
Ashram at Wardha in the
Central Provinces, making
it his headquarters.
30-April-1947
The entire nation is
stirred by religious strife
30-April-1958
Shiekh Abdulla taken into
custody.
30-April-1977
Nine Congress-ruled
states placed under
President's rule. Janata
Party formed.
30-April-1981
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao
was appointed as the
Cabinet Secretary of
India. He held this office
till 08-02-1985

 

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30-April-1988
Raj Kapoor gets Dada
Saheb Phalke award for
1988.
30-April-1991
BJP election manifesto
promises Presidential
form of government.
30-April-1992
Import duty on gold
halved; minor concessions
in direct taxes.
30-April-1992
Over 7 years after the gas
disaster, a Bhopal court
orders attachment of
Carbide properties in
India.
30-April-1996
CBI concludes after 11
1/2 years of investigation
that no espionage has
taken place in what was
dubbed the `ISRO spy
scandal case'.
30-April-1996
Re-polling in 445 stations
in six states.
30-April-1998
Anna Hazare, social
worker, was awarded the
CARE International
humanitarian award for
1998.
30-April-1998
Sukh Ram, former Union
Minister, decides to
resign as a Minister in
the Himachal Pradesh
Government.
30-April-1999
Jessica Lal, model and TV
personality, was murdered
in a crowded south Delhi
restaurant.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for May 1
1-May-1867
Sri Kasinadhuni
Nageswara Rao Pantulu,
great freedom fighter,
journalist, nationalist,
politician, pioneer in
library movement and
litterateur, was born at
Elakurru village in
Gudivada Taluk, District
Krishna.
1-May-1879
Swami Vivekanand
established Ramkrishna
Mission.
1-May-1886
May Day was first
observed in Chicago, USA.
Work, Social activities,
Rest, for 8 Hours.
1-May-1897
Vivekananda Swami
established Ramakrishna
Mission.
1-May-1902
Tornodo hit Dhaka part of
Bengal, claims 416 lives.
1-May-1908
Praful Chaki committed
suicide after he threw a
bomb on Judge Kingsford
of Mujaffarpur, killing two
inocent women.
1-May-1909
Madame Bhikaji Cama
secretly left London and
went to France where she
was wrote and spoke
about the cruelty of
Britishers.
1-May-1913
Balraj Sahani, famous film
actor, was born.
1-May-1915
Rameshwar Shukla
'Anchal', modern Hindi
poet, novelist and essay
writer, was born.
1-May-1922
Madhu Limaye, great
politician, freedom
fighter, writer and
national leader, was born
at Pune, Maharashtra.
1-May-1923
Under the leadership of
Singaravelu Chettiar, the
first May day was
celebrated in India.
1-May-1926
Jim Corbett killed the
notorious man-eating
leopard of Rudraprayag at
Gulabrai village, who had
attacked and killed about
125 people.
1-May-1927
Dr. Namwar Singh was
born.
1-May-1940
Marathi magzine
`Digdarshan' was
published.
1-May-1946
Joanna Lumley, actress
(Abs Fab, OHM's Secret
Service), was born in
Kashmir, India.
1-May-1947
Congress Working
Committee accepts
Partition in principle.
1-May-1948
Baroda State merged into
Bombay Province.
1-May-1958
Bell, 47 G3, the flight was
upgraded to a helicopter
unit with a Sqn Ldr as its
Commanding Officer.
1-May-1960
Old Bombay province was
divided between
Maharashtra and Gujrat
States.
1-May-1964
Ravishankar University
was established at Raipur
in Madhya Pradesh.
1-May-1966
Marathi becomes the
official language of
Maharashtra.
1-May-1972
All fuel coal mines were
nationalised.
1-May-1973
All non-fuel Coal Mines
fields were nationalised.
1-May-1977
Janata Party was
established.
1-May-1981
Sindhudurga district was
formed in Maharashtra
State.
1-May-1983
Amravati University
established.
1-May-1983
V. N. Swamy, pace bowler
without distinction in one
Test for India, passed
away.
1-May-1987
The Bofors Deal.
1-May-1992
Seperate secretariat was
established for primary
education.
1-May-1992
C. Arjun, famous music
director, passed away.
1-May-1993
Narayan Ganesh Goray,
socialist stalwart, 86,
passed away in Pune.
1-May-1994
Political party Shiromani
Akali Dal was established.
1-May-1994
Six leading Akali factions
dissolved to form a new
party, the Shiromani Akali
Dal-Amritsar, which
wanted a 'Sikh State'.
1-May-1995
60 killed as Madras-
Kanyakumari Express
collides with a goods
train at Danishpet
1-May-1995
SAARC endorses South
Asia Free Trade Area
(SAFTA) and establishes a
South Asian Development
Fund (SADF) for the
economic and technical
development of the
subcontinent.
1-May-1996
Ban imposed (through a
Delhi high court
judgment) on the film
'Bandit Queen', based on
the life of Phoolan Devi,
lifted by Supreme Court.
1-May-1996
International women's
master Anupama Gokhale
of Bharat Petroleum
becomes the first woman
in the history of Indian
chess to win an all-India
level international rating
tournament with her
bagging the Mohammed
Hassan memorial title.
1-May-1996
P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala
Governor, resigns in view
of the ongoing CBI
investigation against him
in the hawala case.
1-May-1996
Motilal Vohra, U.P.
Governor, resigns (hawala
case).
1-May-1997
Abhijit Kunte wins
National `A' chess
championshop for men.
1-May-1997
Anand wins all three
categories in Amber chess
tournament in Monte
Carlo.
1-May-1998
The Konkan Railway
running for 760-km is
dedicated to the nation
by Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee. This was
an extention from
Ratnagiri.
1-May-1998
India and Peru sign
agreements on space
technology and
agriculture during the
visit of Indian President
K. R. Narayanan there.
1-May-1999
India retained the SAFF
Coca-Cola football title in
Margao, beating
Bangladesh in the final.
1-May-2000
Bidyut Ganguly (64),
veteran CPI(M) leader and
West Bengal Commerce
and Industry Minister,
died of severe burns in
Calcutta.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for May 2
2-May-1769
Sir John Malcom, former
Governor of Mumbai and
historian, was born.
2-May-1907
Riots break out in
Rawalpindi and East
Bengal, spreading to the
Punjab.
2-May-1908
Police in Calcutta discover
a cache of explosives for
use in alleged anarchist
plot.
2-May-1921
Satyajeet Ray, world
famous film director and
a very short story writer,
was born in a family of
artistS. In 1989, he was
awarded highest honour
of France ''Legion d
Honeur''.
2-May-1922
Kedarnath Modi, great
Industrialist in
Maharashtra, was born.
2-May-1926
Hindu women gain right
to seek elected office.
2-May-1930
Riots break out in
Amritsar.
2-May-1953
Declaration by the PM
that India was opposed to
joining any power-block
in the event of another
war.
2-May-1953
40 persons were reported
losing their lives today in
the first crash of a jet
airliner in commercial
service. The jetliner, a
British-built Comet,
plunged to earth in a
violent storm just a few
minutes after taking off
from Calcutta. It was
carrying a party of rubber
and tin operators from
Malaya to England. There
were no survivors. Two
Comets have crashed
before, one last October
and one in March, but
neither was carrying
passengers.
2-May-1954
Ceylon Asian conference
ends with plea for peace
in Indo-China, end of
atomic tests and
condemnation of
colonialism.
2-May-1968
Lok Sabha passed the
Public Providend Fund
Act.

 

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2-May-1974
700 union leaders
arrested in a move to
avert a rail strike in New
Delhi.
2-May-1977
C.V. Narasimhan became
the director of Central
Bureau of Investigation
(till 25/11/77).
2-May-1981
Dr. Yashwant Singh
Parmar, the architect of
modern Himachal Pradesh
and an energetic Chief
Minister, passed away.
2-May-1982
Mohun Bagan retains
Federation Cup (football)
beating Mafatlal at
Calicut.
2-May-1985
Banarsidas Chaturvedi,
famous writer and
journalist, passed away.
2-May-1992
President J.B.Patnaik,
former Orissa CM and PCC
(I), arrested on corruption
charges.
2-May-1996
Controversial godman
Chandraswami arrested
and sent to high security
Tihar jail on a day's
judicial custody by a
Delhi court for allegedly
cheating NRI
businessman Lakhubhai
Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
2-May-1996
General Election 2nd
phase begins in 204 LS
and 223 Assembly
constituencies spread
over 17 States & union
territories.
2-May-1998
The Indian Army at
Bandipura market
captured 10.5 Kg Charas.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for May 3
3-May-1718
Baba Jassa Singh
Ahluwalia, great freedom
fighter, social reformer
and leader, was born at
Ahlu village, Lahore.
3-May-1764
Mir Kasim, with the
backing of Delhi Emperor,
attacked on Patna but
this weak Emperor was
defeated by Britishers.
Britishers became the
rulers of Bengal, the
richest province of India.
3-May-1765
Clive became Governor of
Bengal for second time
from England after he
returned to Calcutta.
3-May-1896
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna
Menon, great nationalist,
lawyer, freedom fighter,
barrister and member of
the Rajya Sabha, was
born at Panniyankara in
Calicut, Kerala.
3-May-1913
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke,
more generally known as
Dada Saheb Phalke, was
responsible for the
production of India's first
fully indigenous silent
four-reel feature film 'Raja
Harishchandra' which
heralded the birth of the
Indian film industry. The
film had titles in Hindi
and English and was
released on May 3, 1913
at the Coronation
Cinematograph in
Bombay.
3-May-1927
Riots between Sikhs and
Muslims in Lahore claims
14 lives and leaves 100
injured.
3-May-1936
Engelbert Humperdinck
[Arnold George Dorsey],
famous singer, was born
in Madras, India.
3-May-1945
Hurricane-equipped
squadrons played a major
role in the Arakan
offensive which began in
December 1944,
disrupting the enemy's
lines of communication
and constantly harrying
the Japanese forces until
victory was achieved with
the re-occupation of
Rangoon.
3-May-1947
Indian National Trade
Union Congress Intak was
established.
3-May-1959
Sadhvi Uma GulabSingh
Bharti was born in Dunda,
Distt. Tikamgarh (Madhya
Pradesh).
3-May-1962
Hundreds of Muslims are
killed in clashes with
Hindus in West Bengal.
3-May-1969
Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri
(1884-1980) became the
acting President of India.
3-May-1969
Dr. Zakir Hussain
(1897-1969), third
President of India and
the first Muslim President
who occupied this office
on 13 May, 1967, passed
away. He is also
remembered as an
educationist.
3-May-1971
Dhanjay Ramchandra
Gadgil, famous economist,
passed away.
3-May-1977
Hamid Dalwai, father of
Muslim Satyashodhak
Mandal in Maharashtra,
passed away.

 

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3-May-1994
Election Commission
recognises DMK headed
by M. Karunanidhi as the
rightful claimant to the
symbol of rising sun and
the flag reserved for it.
3-May-1997
Vijay Pradhan, additional
senior counsel for
Srikrishna Commission
probing 1992-93 riots in
Mumbai, resigns. He is
not allowed to cross-
examine Chief Minister
Manohar Joshi.
3-May-1998
Kushabhau Thakre takes
over as the new BJP
President.
3-May-1999
Cochin Port Trust men
and Southern Railway
women won the 21st
Federation Cup volleyball
titles in Pathanamthitta.