This Day in "History"

[Dileep Kumar]

@ Anup bro edit the post just copying pasteing unable to read these pls give a gap

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Ok bro

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for May 4
4-May-1783
Tipu Sultan was
enthroned as the ruler of
Mysore after the death of
Haider Ali in a simple
ceremony at Bednur. He
continued the Second
Mysore War against the
English. He defeated
many EnglishGenerals like
Brithwhite & Col. Bailey.

Tipu Sultan signed the
treaty at Mangalore on
11th March 1784 A.D.
which was known as the
Mangalore treaty.

4-May-1799
Tipu Sultan is killed in a
battle against 5,000
British soldiers who
stormed and razed his
capital, Seringapatanam.

4-May-1832
Darpan', a fortnightly
magazine started
publishing as a weekly.

4-May-1849

 

[Anup Tiwari]

4-May-1849
Jyotirindranath Tagore,
Bengali litterateur and
poet, was born.

4-May-1854
The first stamp was
officially issued from
Calcutta where the first
modern post office was
established.

4-May-1923
Mrinal Sen, famous film
director, was born.

4-May-1932
Many are arrested as
Congress agents picket
Bombay post offices in
celebration of Gandhi
Day.

4-May-1935
Dalip Kaur Tiwana, great
educationist and writer,
was born in Ribbon
village, Punjab.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

4-May-1957
Rai Chaudhary
Hemchandra, great
historian, passed away.

4-May-1959
Nehru rejects proposals
that India and Pakistan
resolve their differences
and set up a common
alliance against
Communist China.

4-May-1960
Washington, Ike signs
wheat pact with India for
largest U.S. food sale.

4-May-1980
Coal Mine Worker's Day
established.

4-May-1989
Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay,
famous Bengali
litterateur, passed away.

4-May-1990
Supreme Court directs
Central Government to set
up a Tribunal to resolve
Cauvery water dispute
between Tamil Nadu and
Karnataka.

4-May-1992
India and Russia sign a
five-year agreement on
trade and economic
cooperation.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

4-May-1993
Income Tax exemption
limit raised to Rs.30,000;
Customs duty on certain
drugs reduced.

4-May-1993
Santosh Yadav became
the first Indian woman to
conquer the Everest
twice.


4-May-1994
Fourth developmental
launch of ASLV. 113 kg
Stretched Rohini Satellite
Series (SROSS-C2) was
launched by fourth
developmental flight of
ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota.
This carried two scientific
payload, a Gamma Ray
Burst (GRB) experiment
and a Retarding Potential
Analyser (RPA). It is still
in service.


4-May-1995
The fourth ASLV-D4 blasts
off from Sriharikota,
successfully placing the
SROSS-C2 satellite in
orbit.

4-May-1998
India is placed on the US
Special 309 watch list.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 6
6-May-1529
Babur Shah, Mughal
Emperior, defeated
Afghan Nawab Nasrat
Shah, king of Bengal, on
the banks of the Gand
and the Ghaghra river.

6-May-1589
Mian Tansen, famous
singer of Akbar's court,
died at Gwalior.

6-May-1680
Chatrapati Rajaram
Maharaj was crowned.

6-May-1775
Nanda Kumar, king of
Calcutta, was arrested.

6-May-1861
Motilal Gangadhar Nehru,
great Indian lawyer,
political leader and social
reformer, was born at
Agra.

6-May-1910
Edward VII, King of Great
Britain and Emperor of
India, died suddenly of
pneumonia at
Buckingham Palace
tonight. He ruled Britain
for nine years. Power
passed immediately to his
son George, the Prince of
Wales, who will rule as
King George V. The 68-
year-old monarch's
sudden death threw his
country into a state of
shock. Edward had
apparently caught a cold
during a visit the past
weekend to the wet
grounds of his estate at
Sandringham.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

6-May-1916
Edward VII passed away
at London.

6-May-1922
Chhatrapati Rajarshi
Shahu, great
revolutionary, freedom
fighter and social
reformer of Kolhapur,
passed away at Bombay.
He was 48.

6-May-1944
Mahatma Gandhi was
released unconditionally
from his last
imprisonment from Aga
Khan Palace at Pune.

6-May-1946
Bhulabhai Desai, great
politician, passed away.

6-May-1948
India rejected the
Security Council's plan for
UN supervision over
plebiscite in Kashmir.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

6-May-1952
Dr. Rajendra Prasad re-
elected the President of
India ""Rashtrapati""
after the first Presidential
election held under the
Indian constitut

6-May-1952
Maria Montessori, pioneer
in mordern education,
who spent almost 10
years in India, died in
Noordwijk aan Zee. The
principles and techiques
advocated by her are also
applied to the education
of handicapped children
and adult education.

6-May-1967
Dr. Zakir Hussain elected
President.

6-May-1971
D. Sen became the
director of Central Bureau
of Investigation (till
29/03/77).

6-May-1971
India refutes allegations
that it has meddled in
Pakistan's civil war.

6-May-1993
Violence in Orissa state
secretariat, CM
manhandled.

6-May-1997
12 persons killed and
eight seriously injured in
two blasts in east Delhi.

6-May-2000
Saurav Ganguly wins the
Ceat International
Cricketer of the Year
award 1999-2000.

6-May-2000
Benoy Krishna Chowdhury
(89), veteran freedom
fighter and prominent CPI
(M) leader, died at a
Government Hospital in
Calcutta.

 

[Dileep Kumar]

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