This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for May 7

7-May-1834
East India Company
annexed Coorg. King Raja
Veer Rajendra, who was a
cruel ruler, after formally
declaring a war had
captured Durg State.

7-May-1849
Bethune College of
Calcutta was established
in the upper class
families and it was
started for female
education.

7-May-1861
Guru Dev Rabindranath
Thakur alias Tagore,
novelist, painter,
educationist and freedom
fighter, was born in
Calcutta.

7-May-1889
Dr. Narayan Subbarao
Hardikar, freedom fighter,
journalist and
Padmabhushan awardee,
was born.

7-May-1907
The First Electric Tramway
service commenced in
Bombay (Mumbai). This
service was inaugurated
by Municipality Chairman
Vallabhdas Thakersey and
Municipal Commissioner
Sheppard at 5.30 p.m.
This tram was well
decorated and destined
from Municipal Office
upto Crawford Market.

 

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7-May-1907
Rajbali Pandey, famous
poet, was born.

7-May-1908
Sudhabala alias Ermaline
was born in Bombay. She
was a film actress. Her
first film was 'Hothal
Padmini' (1925). Some of
her films are Kicks of
Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red
Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-
Bagdad.

7-May-1912
Pannalal Patel, great
Gujrati novelist and story
writer, was born.

7-May-1950
81 people died in a rail
crash at Patna. A
sabotage was suspected.

7-May-1950
Punjab Mail train crashed
near Jasidh killing 81
persons.

7-May-1958
Acharya Kripalani elected
leader of a new
opposition group in the
Lok Sabha.

7-May-1973
The foundation stone was
laid of Itanagar, the new
capital of Arunachal
Pradesh.

7-May-1973
Shivkumar Batalvi, famous
Punjabi poet, died.

7-May-1985
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
adjudged Best Director
(Mukhamukham) in
national film awards.

7-May-1990
Foundation stones are
laid in Ayodhya for a new
temple at the birthplace
of Lord Rama as Hindu
nationalism rises.
Government disallows the
Shilanyas.

7-May-1990
Government of India bans
strikes in any service in
any oil field or refinery
under the Essential
Services Maintenance Act.

7-May-1991
Haryana beat Bombay in
the cricket Ranji Trophy
final by 2 runs.

7-May-1993
Jankiraman panel's final
report finds that an
additional aggregate of
Rs. 12,85,549 crore was
transacted in banks
without any
documentation; it indicts
12 more banks for
involving in the scam.

7-May-1994
Dr. S.P. Tripathy,
Director-General of ICMR,
retired after 32 years of
distinguished service in
the ICMR, and Dr. G.V.
Satyavati took over as the
new Director-General of
ICMR in July 1994. She
became the first woman
scientist in the country to
head not only ICMR but
any Research agency in
independent India.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

7-May-1994
Sunit Khatau, famous
industrialist and textile
magnet in Mumbai and
owner of Khatau Group,
was murdered. He was 55.

7-May-1994
Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar
Nasir, famous classical
singer of Dhrupad-
Dhamar, passed away at
the age of 62 in Bareilly.

7-May-1996
Third and final phase of
polling begins for 185 LS
constituencies and 154
assembly constituencies;
55 to 60\% turnout was
witnessed and there was
widespread violence in
Bihar.

7-May-2000
Ranjit Singh Gill, one of
the prime accused in the
murder of Lalit Maken and
his wife Geetanjali, who
was the daughter of the
late President Dr. Shankar
Dayal Sharma, on July 31,
1985, was extradited to
Delhi from the US to
stand trial in the case.

 

[Thakur]

Today in History
May 8

1450 Jack Cade's Rebellion–Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River which he calls Rio de Espiritu Santo.
1559 An act of supremacy defines Queen Elizabeth I as the supreme governor of the church of England.
1794 The United States Post Office is established.
1846 The first major battle of the Mexican War is fought at Palo Alto, Texas.
1862 General 'Stonewall' Jackson repulses the Federals at the Battle of McDowell, in the Shenendoah Valley.
1864 Union troops arrive at Spotsylvania Court House to find the Confederates waiting for them.
1886 Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1895 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.
1904 U.S. Marines land in Tangier, North Africa, to protect the Belgian legation.
1919 The first transatlantic flight by a navy seaplane takes-off.
1933 Hahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest British oppression in India.
1940 German commandos in Dutch uniforms cross the Dutch border to hold bridges for the advancing German army.
1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea between the Japanese Navy and the U.S. Navy ends.
1945 The final surrender of German forces is celebrated as VE (Victory Europe) day.
1952 Allied fighter-bombers stage the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1958 President Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green becomes the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
1967 Boxer Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army.
1984 The Soviet Union announces it will not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles.
1995 Jacques Chirac is elected president of France.
Born on May 8

1668 Alain Rene Lesage, French writer (The Adventures of Gil Blas, Turcaret).
1753 Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican nationalist.
1828 Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross and YMCA, first recipient (jointly) of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist.
1884 Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (1945-1953).
1895 Edmund Wilson, American critic and essayist.
1906 Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director.
1910 Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist and composer.
1920 Sloan Wilson, American author (The man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Summer Place).
1928 Theodore Sorenson, advisor to John F. Kennedy.
1930 Gary Snyder, beat poet.
1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist (Gravity's Rainbow).
1940 Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep).
1952 Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Crimes of the Heart).
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[Anup Tiwari]

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[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 8

8-May-1725
John Lovewell, US Indian
fighter, passed away in a
battle.

8-May-1815
Malaun of Nepal was
captured by General
David Ochterlony.

8-May-1901
British commission claims
famine has taken 1.25
mil. lives since 1899;
blames overpopulation.

8-May-1906
Prannath Thapar, former
General of India, was
born.

8-May-1910
Tolstoy replies to
Gandhiji that question of
Passive Resistance is of
greatest importance, not
only for India but for
humanity.

8-May-1930
Gandhi followers mob
Bombay to protest his
arrest.

8-May-1933
Gandhi starts hunger
strike to protest the
British repression of
untouchables.

8-May-1954
Indian Government
decided to integrate
Chandranagar in West
Bengal which was under
the rule of the French.

8-May-1959
Dalai Lama will not be
allowed to campaign for
Tibetan independence in
India. India wants to
maintain friendly
relations with Communist
China.

 

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8-May-1962
Ravindra Bharti University
established in West
Bengal.

8-May-1963
Centenary of Indian Red
Cross was celebrated.
Today is birthday of its
founder.

8-May-1971
Mohinder Singh Gill at
Fresno sets record for TJ
in 16.79.

8-May-1990
A 255 kmph cyclone
lashes Andhra Pradesh
coast causing heavy losses
to life and property.

8-May-1990
Paul Mantosh and Joss
Fernandes take oath as
nominated Anglo-Indian
members in Lok Sabha.

8-May-1992
Eighth Plan outlay
increased to Rs. 7,98,000
crores; Public Sector
outlay goes up to 45\%.

8-May-1992
Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8
Tests for India & one for
Pakistan), passed away.

8-May-1994
Harikant Jethwani, famous
Sindhi litterateur, passed
away.

8-May-1995
Prem Bhatia, journalist,
passed away at 83.

8-May-1996
The governing Congress
party is routed in Indian
elections that have left
no party with a clear
mandate to govern.

8-May-1996
Poll counting begins.
8-May-1997
India decides to import
currency notes for the
first time.

8-May-1997
Mumbai High Court holds
that Christian women can
seek divorce on the sole
ground of being subjected
to cruelty and need not
prove infedidelity on the
part of their husbands or
desertion.

8-May-1998
Sheikh Hasina,
Bangladesh Prime
Minister, gets the Gandhi
award for 1998.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 10

10-May-1526
Babur won the first
Panipat battle and
entered in North India's
capital Agra.

10-May-1857
India's real mutiny
begins with the revolt of
Sepoys of Meerut near
Delhi the next day.

10-May-1901
Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose,
Indian scientist, in the
hall of the Royal Society,
London, which was packed
with eminent scientists
on May 10, 1901 proved
that ""plants and animal
have similar touch sense"

10-May-1905
Pankaj Malik, music
director, was born.

10-May-1909
Bellari Shammanna
Keshvan, internationally
famous librarian, was
born.

10-May-1910
Robert Koch, nobel
laureate, died of an heart
attack.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

10-May-1917
Ramanand Maru Amin,
great novelist, was born
in Baloor, Mangalore.
10-May-1927
Nayantara Sahgal, famous
writer and social reformer,
was born.
10-May-1936
Dr. Mukhtar Ahmad
Ansari, great freedom
fighter, politician,
journalist and muslim
leader, passed away.
10-May-1957
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
elected President of India
for a second term.
10-May-1977
Jahangir Khan, famous
musician, passed away.

10-May-1979
Indy Khabra, Soccer
(Football) player, was
born.

10-May-1981
The first day and night
cricket match of India was
played at the flood-lit
ground of the Wilson
College Gymkhana
(Bombay)

10-May-1982
Karnataka Kranti Ranga
led by Devaraj Urs comes
into being.

10-May-1985
59 were killed and 150
wounded in Sikh attacks.

10-May-1985
P. N. Bhagawati
appointed Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court.

10-May-1992
Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman
of the Agricultural Costs
and Prices Commission,
was shot dead by
suspected Sikh terrorists
in Delhi.

10-May-1993
Santosh Yadav becomes
the first Indian woman to
reach the Everest for the
second time.

10-May-1996
Congress Chief Ministers
of Assam, Haryana &
Pondicherry resign.

10-May-1996
PM P.V. Narasimha Rao
and his Council of
Ministers resign.

10-May-1996
Union Cabinet
recommends to President
the dissolution of the
10th Lok Sabha.

10-May-1999
Tamil Nadu Government
withdraws the
controversial Prevention of
Terrorist Activities (POTA)
Bill.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 11

11-May-1626
Malik Ambar of
Ahmednagar's Nijamshahi
kingdom, passed away.

11-May-1885
Krishnamohan
Bandopadhyay, leader,
essay writer and
journalist of Bengal,
passed away.

11-May-1888
Asaf Ali, lawyer,
nationalist, writer and
connoisseur of music and
arts, was born.

11-May-1895
Jiddu Krishnamurti, great
Indian profound
philosopher of
international repute, was
born at Madanapalle,
Andhra Predesh. His
famous book ""Song of
Life"" contains most of his
philosophical thoughts
and teachi

11-May-1911
Shrimati Lalitadevi, wife of
second Prime Minister of
India Lal Bahadur Shastri,
was born.

11-May-1919
Troops under General
Barrett inflicted a sharp
reverse today on the
invading Afghans at Bagh
Springs. The whole of the
frontier area was up in
arms with tribesmen
threatening Landi Khotal
and martial law being
proclaimed in Peshawar.
It was expected however
that General Barrett, well
equipped with guns and
airplanes, would soon
control the situation.
Reports had been
reaching London for some
time about the possibility
of an Afghan incursion
following the murder of
the pro-British Emir
Habibullah. His third son,
Amanullah Khan, who
took over the throne, was
known to be hostile
toward the government of
India.