This Day in "History"

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11-May-1930
Ganesh Narayan R, great
Industrialist, was born.

11-May-1965
The first of two cyclones
in less than a month kills
35,000 people in the
country.

11-May-1970
A bill for setting up of
""North Eastern Council""
pas

11-May-1985
b**by (Doll) trap bomb
kills 86 people in India.

11-May-1985
Fifteen hundred people
were arrested in Sikh
violence.

11-May-1987
President's rule imposed
in Punjab.

11-May-1991
Naxalities in Andhra
abduct P. Sudhir Kumar,
son of the former Union
Minister Shiv Shankar.

 

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11-May-1993
Toy factory fire kills over
200 people in Bangalore.

11-May-1995
In central Kashmir,
militants burnt the
Charar-e-Sherif shrine
(the tomb of Sufi saint
Sheikh Noorudin Noorani)
built in 1460 by Zain-ul-
Abidin.

11-May-1998
Three momentous events
took place on the day
that did the nation
proud. Firstly, three
underground nuclear
tests at Pokhran Range in
Rajasthan, which included
a hydrogen bomb, were
tested; secondly, the
successful test firing of
the 'Trishul Missile' and
thirdly, the maiden
Certification test flight of
'Hansa-3', the first-all
Composite indigenous two
seater aircraft.

11-May-1999
Rajiv Gandhi
Assassination Case: The
Supreme Court confirmed
the death sentence on
four of the 26 accused,
life imprisionment to
three and acquitted the
remaining 19 people.

11-May-1999
Centre removes the West
Bengal Governor A. R.
Kidwai. The Arunachal
Pradesh Governor Mata
Prasad had also been
asked to step down.

11-May-1999
Supreme Court confirms
the death sentence on
four of the 26 accused in
the Rajiv Gandhi
assassination case,
reduces to life
imprisonment the
sentence on three others
and acquits the
remaining 19.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 12

12-May-1459
Sun City India founded by
Rao in Jodhpur.

12-May-1666
Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj meet Aurangzeb
and was arrested.

12-May-1906
Gandhiji support the
""Home Rule"" for India
in the name of ''justice
and for good of human

12-May-1915
Rash Behari Bose,
revolutionary leader, left
India by boarding a
Japanese steamer ''Sanuki
Maru'' under assumed
name of P. N. Tagore to
dodge the British forces.

12-May-1923
Meera Mukherjee, great
artist, was born.

12-May-1930
R. H. Tahiliyani, former
Navy Chief of India
Admiral, was born.

12-May-1937
George VI is crowned.

12-May-1949
S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first
woman foreign
ambassador, was received
in US.

 

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12-May-1952
Washington welcomes its
first female ambassador,
India's Shrimati Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit.

12-May-1955
The PM laid the
foundation stone for the
National Museum.

12-May-1966
Sardar Sikandar Hayat,
President of Pakistan-
occupied Kashmir,
resigns.

12-May-1984
Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah
Chettiar, social reformer,
passed away at Madras.

12-May-1987
Britain's HMS Hermes
becomes Indian Navy's
second aircraft carrier
named INS Viraat.

12-May-1992
Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-
Tibetan Border Police)
becomes the second
Indian woman to set foot
atop Mt. Everest.

 

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12-May-1992
Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-
Tibetan Border Police)
becomes the second
Indian woman to set foot
atop Mt. Everest.

12-May-1992
Security scandal, RBI
extends probe to four
foreign banks.

12-May-1993
Lok Sabha okays extension
of President's rule in the
former BJP-ruled states.

12-May-1993
Samsher Bahadur Singh,
modern Hindi poet,
passed away.

12-May-1995
India refused to sign NPT
in its present
discriminatory form.

12-May-1995
Supreme court stays
Tamil Nadu Governor's
orders allowing Dr.
Subramaniam Swamy to
prosecute Chief Minister
Dr. Jayalalitha under
Prevention of Corruption
Act.

12-May-1997
Prime Ministers of India
and Pakistan agree to set
up joint working groups
on a range of issues to be
identified by Foreign
Secretaries.

12-May-1998
Yeltsin feels let down by
the Indian nuclear tests
but says that Indo-
Russian ties will not be
hit.

12-May-1998
Bill Clinton, US President,
asks India to sign the
CTBT.

12-May-1999
Arunachal Pradesh
Governor refuses to quit.

 

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Today in Indian History

Events for May 13

13-May-1648
Construction of the Red
Fort at Dehli was
completed.

13-May-1791
Lord Cornwallis retreated
back to Madras after the
battle of Arikera.

13-May-1857
Sir Ronald Ross,
bacteriologist, member of
Indian Medical service,
Nobel awardee and editor
of 'Science Progress', was
born at Almora, UP.

13-May-1883
Henk JFM Sneevliet,
leader RSAP/editor
Spartacus (Dutch-Indies),
was born.

13-May-1905
Fakruddin Ali Ahmed, the
fifth President of India,
was born at Delhi.

13-May-1916
Vasudev Mahadev
Salgaonkar, great
Industrialist, was born.

13-May-1918
Balasarswati, famous
dancer of Bharat Natyam,
was born.

13-May-1923
Moinul Haque Choudhury,
social reformer and
politician, was born at
Sonabarighat (Assam).

13-May-1946
Sarwate and Banerjee add
249 runs for the 10th wkt
stand for Indians v
Surrey.

 

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13-May-1949
Maharashtra Granthalay
Sangh was established.

13-May-1952
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
again becomes the Prime
Minister of India and
forms a new union
ministry.

13-May-1953
The first Indian Navy air
station INS Garuda was
commissioned at
Venduruthy, the naval
base in Cochin.

13-May-1956
Acharya Vinoba Bhave
started the Bhoodan
campaign in Tiruvellore.

13-May-1962
Bharat Ratna, India's
highest award, was given
to Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(1884-1963).

13-May-1962
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(1884-1963) retired from
the post of first President.

13-May-1962
Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
(1888-1975) became the
second President of India.
He held this office till
May 13, 1967.

13-May-1962
Dr. Zakir Hussain became
the Vice President
(1962-67).

13-May-1967
Dr. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
(1888-1975) retired from
the post of second
President.

13-May-1967
Dr. Zakhir Hussain
became 3rd President of
India. He was the first
Muslim President of
Indian Union. He held
this position till August
24, 1969.

 

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13-May-1971
General Insurance
nationalized.

13-May-1991
P. Sudhir Kumar released
in exchange for a few
Naxals in jail.

13-May-1994
Renowned
environmentalist Maurice
F. Strong chosen for the
Jawaharlal Nehru
International
Understanding award for
1992.

13-May-1994
Telecom sector opened to
private companies under
the new national policy
announced in Parliament.

13-May-1995
Renowned
environmentalist Maurice
F. Strong chosen for the
Jawaharlal Nehru
International
Understanding awarded
for 1992.

13-May-1996
Lok Sabha election results
(534 out of 537)
announced, giving BJP
(161) the position of the
largest single party.

13-May-1996
M. Karunanidhi (DMK)
sworn in as Tamil Nadu
CM.

13-May-1997
Doordarshan drops plans
to enter the direct-to-
home (DTH) mode of
television transmission.

13-May-1998
India carries out two
more nuclear tests at
Pokharan in Rajasthan.

13-May-1998
India conducts two more
nuclear tests at Pokhran.
The US slaps sanctions.
The Prime Minister says
India will face down
sanctions.

13-May-1998
World Bank cancels India
donors meet.

13-May-2000
Lara Dutta (21), who said
beauty pageants give
women a platform to
''voice our choices and
opinions'' is named Miss
Universe 2000 in the
Cyprus capital Nicosia.
13-May-2000
The Union Government
gives its approval for the
creation of the three new
states of Jharkhand,
Uttaranchal and
Chhattisgarh to be carved
out of Bihar, Uttar
Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh.

 

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Today in Indian History

Events for May 14

14-May-1657
Dharmavir Chhatrapati
Sambhaji Maharaj was
born on Purandar fort.

14-May-1907
Muhammad Ayub Khan,
Pakistani president, was
born.

14-May-1914
Ekanath Dattatreya
Kulkarni, educationist and
writer, was born at
Bhaloni, Tal Pandharpur.

14-May-1923
Narayan Ganesh
Chandavarkar, one of the
founder members of
Indian Congress and
social reformer, passed
away.

14-May-1953
Y. N. Sukthankar was
appointed as the Cabinet
Secretary of India. He
held this office till
31-07-1957

14-May-1954
President issues an order
extending application of
Indian Constitution to
Kashmir with the
concurrence of the State
government.

14-May-1956
Govt announces that
decimal coinage will be
introduced in India from
April 1, 1957.

14-May-1960
The first plane of India
flew upto New York.

14-May-1963
Dr. Raghuvir, a famous
linguist and President of
Jansangh, passed away.

14-May-1972
Fighting between Indian
and Pakistani forces along
the Kashmir border
reported.

 

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14-May-1972
Fighting between Indian
and Pakistani forces along
the Kashmir border
reported.

14-May-1976
Pakistan and India agree
to resume diplomatic ties.

14-May-1978
Jagdishchandra Mathur,
modern Hindi playwright,
passed away.

14-May-1982
All India Radio renamed
as 'Akashwani' but it's
Urdu service yet
announces that it's All
India Radio.
14-May-1992
LTTE banned in India.

14-May-1993
Bombay High Court
upholds Goa C.M. Ravi
Naik's disqualification by
speaker under anti-
defection bill.

14-May-1993
Justice V. Ramaswamy
decides to resign.

14-May-1994
LTTE banned for the
second time under the
Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, 1967.

14-May-1994
RBI announces tight
monetary policy.

14-May-1995
Major train accident near
Salem when KK Express
collides with goods train
killing 51 people.

14-May-1996
H.D. Deve Gowda elected
leader of the third front
as its prime ministerial
candidate.

14-May-1998
India will not sign CTBT
unconditionally, says the
Prime Minister.

14-May-1999
Gurucharan Singh Tohra
is expelled from
Shiromani Akali Dal.

14-May-2000
L. K. Advani, Union Home
Minister, announces
extension of the ban on
the LTTE by two more
years.