This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

24-May-1990
Surjit Singh Barnala sworn
in as Governor of Tamil
Nadu.

24-May-1990
K. S. Hegde, former
President of Parliament,
passed away.

24-May-1991
The body of Rajiv Gandhi,
India's assassinated
former premier and son of
the late Indira Gandhi,
was cremated in New
Delhi today. He was killed
by a suicide bomber in
the southern state of
Tamil Nadu three days
ago. Police suspect that
Tamil rebels, fighting for
independence in Sri
Lanka, carried out the
murder. Gandhi's death
signaled the end of the
Nehru dynasty's rule over
India. His two children
were too young to assume
the leadership of this
turbulent nation. There
was pressure for Sonia
Gandhi to succeed her
husband, but she was
Italian-born and refused.

24-May-1992
D. R. Bhagwat, veteran
journalist, passed away.

24-May-1993
India and Uzbekistan sign
five pacts.

24-May-1999
Noted wrestling coach
Dronacharya awardee
Guru Hanuman passed
away in a road accident
near Meerut.

24-May-2000
The Supreme Court
rejects the proposal for
setting up benches
outside Delhi.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 25

25-May-1606
Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual
leader of Sikhs and Hindus,
was massacred at the
instruction of Emperor
Jahangir.

25-May-1611
Emperor Jahangir married
Meherunnisa, widow of Sher
Afghan. She recieved the
title Noor Jahan.

25-May-1877
Sir John Lawrence--
passenger steamer of
McLean & Co. of Calcutta--
sank near the coastline of
Orrisa in a storm. This ship
carried 732 passengers.

25-May-1886
Rash Behari Basu, great
revolutionary, freedom
fighter, social reformer and
leader, was born at Palara
Bighati village, West Bengal.

25-May-1894
Biharilal Chakravorty,
bengali poet, passed away.

25-May-1899
Nazrul Islam, revolutionary
and Bengali poet, was born
in Churulia village of
Burdwan district.

25-May-1915
Mahatma Gandhi
established Sabarmati
Ashram near Ahmedabad.

25-May-1917
Abdul Vavakunju
Ummasalumma Khader,
freedom fighter, was born in
Kerala. He was hanged on
September 10, 1943.

25-May-1924
Ashutosh Mukerjee, famous
educationalist, passed away
in Dumraon at Bihar .

25-May-1933
All young Hindus aged
between 12 and 25 years
were forced to carry identity
cards to prevent spread of
terrorism.

 

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25-May-1936
Rusi Framroz Surti, cricketer
(Indian slow lefty, hat-trick
for Qld 1969), was born in
Surat, Gujarat.

25-May-1937
Munshi Ajmeri passed away.

25-May-1941
5,000 drown in a storm at
Ganges Delta region in
India.

25-May-1941
Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted
patriot and freedom fighter,
was arrested in Jaisalmer.
He wrote two books
""Jaisalmer Rajya ka Gunda
Shasan"" and ""Raghunath
Singh Ka Mukadma"" for
which he was prohibited to
enter in Ja

25-May-1954
Maharshee Rajratna
'Manikrao' (Gajanan
Yashwant Manik), physical
expert, passed away.

25-May-1961
Woorkeri Venkar Raman, left-
hand batsman and slow-spin
bowler, was born in Madras.

25-May-1965
Independent India had
further clashes with Pakistan
in 1965 and 1971, one over
the intractable Kashmir
dispute and the other over
Bangladesh. A border war
was also fought with China
in 1962 in the North-Eastern
region, which resulted in the
loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh
and smaller areas in the
North-east. India continues
to dispute sovereignty over
these areas.

25-May-1979
Commercial Unity Day
started.

25-May-1990
Jag Mohan, J&K Governor,
resigns. Girish Chandra
Saxena appointed new
Governor.

25-May-1991
Indian, UN Angola
Verification Mission - I
ended (UNAVEM - I June 89 -
May 91)

25-May-1993
Kazakhstan offers Baikonur
facilities to India.

 

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25-May-1995
Parliament gives assent to
Budget and passes Finance
Appropriation Bill.

25-May-1995
Voting on the Criminal Law
Bill differed again in Rajya
Sabha.

25-May-1996
DMK-led coalition ministry
headed by R.V. Janakiraman
sworn in Pondicherry.

25-May-1996
Kathapurushan' wins best
film national award.

25-May-1996
Maharashta govt. announces
decision to revive Sri Krishna
Commission set up to probe
the 1993 Mumbai riots.

25-May-1997
In a bid to break the
deadlock on naming
transport corporation after
caste leaders in southern
districts, Tamil Nadu
Government agrees to create
a new bus corporation
named after Pulithevan.

25-May-1997
Seven Pakistani infiltrators
are killed in an encounter
with BSF in Ranbir Singh
Pora.

25-May-1999
India blasts its way into the
global satellite launch
vehicle market with the
PSLV-C2 deploying two
foreign satellites besides the
Indian remote sensing
satellite, IRS-P4.

25-May-1999
The Prime Minister declares
the Centre will take all
possible steps to push back
infiltrators in Kargil.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for May 26

26-May-1739
Afghanistan was
separated from the
Indian empire as a result
of a treaty signed
between Mughal Emperor
Muhammad Shah and
Nadir Shah.

26-May-1885
Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh
Gadkari), great Marathi
playwright, comedy author
and poet, was born.

26-May-1906
Benjamin Peary Pal,
internationally famous
scientist of Indian
agriculture, was born at
Mukundpur, Punjab. In
1929, he went to
Cambridge to do research
on wheat and he returned
to Burma with a Ph.D.
five years later. In 1933,
he got a research job
with what is now known
as the Indian Agricultural
Research Institute in New
Delhi. In 1965, Pal
became Director General
of the newly founded
Indian Council of
Agricultural Research in
New Delhi. He has
written several books on
roses, the most popular
being ""The Rose in
India"

26-May-1916
Rangnath Manohar Joshi
(Nirmal Guruji), Marathi
author, was born.

26-May-1926
Kankalta, freedom fighter,
was born in Bargawadi
village at Assam . She was
shot when she tried to
flur the Indian National
Flag in Gopur, Assam.

26-May-1931
One hundred miners were
trapped beneath a
blazing mine. It was
thought that there were
unlikely to be any
survivors in Madras.

 

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One hundred miners were
trapped beneath a
blazing mine. It was
thought that there were
unlikely to be any
survivors in Madras.
26-May-1935
Swami Mrigendra
Channaya, great Social
Scientist in Maharashtra,
was born.

26-May-1945
Vilasrao Dagdojirao
Deshmukh, leader in
Maharashtra, was born.

26-May-1946
Gandhiji considers 'Plan'
the best document
produced by British
Government under the
circumstances.

26-May-1948
First ever trade
agreement with Pakistan.

26-May-1957
Janta Insurance Scheme
was inaugurated in
Bombay.

26-May-1983
R. V. Marathe, father of
Postal Index, passed
away.

26-May-1993
The Centre decides to
implement the Mandal
Commission
recommendation to
provide 27\% reservation
for the socially and
educationally backward
classes in the Central
Services from 15th June.

26-May-1997
Government decides to
allow the use of
environment-friendly LPG
as a motor vehicle fuel.

26-May-1998
Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati,
economist, was awarded
the 1998 Freedom Prize of
the Max Schmidmeiny
Foundation.

 

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26-May-1999
IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with
an Ocean Colour Monitor
(OCM) and a Multi-
frequency Scanning
Microwave Radiometer
(MSMR) and two small
satellites (KITSAT of Korea
and TUBSAT of Germany)
launched by PSLV-C2.

26-May-2000
In a significant
development, the
Government decides to
allow disinvestment up to
60 per cent equity of Air
India.

26-May-2000
Prabhakar G. Surur (93)
died in Mumbai.



Today in Indian History - Events for May 26

 

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Today in Indian History

Events for May 28

28-May-1414
Khidr Khan Syed,
Governor of Lahore,
replaced Daulat Khan
Lodi on Delhi's throne.

28-May-1883
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
""Veer"", great freedom
fighter, social reformer,
politician and writer, was
born at Bhagur village
near Nasi

28-May-1895
Bagal Bhai Madhavrao
Khanderao, freedom
fighter, author and
painter, was born.

28-May-1903
Shantanu L. Kirloskar,
great industrialist, was
born at Sholapur
(Maharashtra).

28-May-1907
Purohit Dingambar
Vinayak (Nanasaheb),
leader in Maharashtra,
was born.

28-May-1923
Nandamuri Tarak
Ramarao, film star, former
Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh and founder of
Telgu Desam Party, was
born. He has acted in
many films including
'Patal Bhairavi'.

28-May-1925
Awadh Kishore Narain,
educationist, was born.

28-May-1930
Bhagwaticharan Vohra,
great revolutionary
freedom fighter, died near
the banks of Ravi river
during a bomb testing.

28-May-1950
Bhagwaticharan, great
revolutionary, passed
away.

28-May-1963
Estimated 22,000 die in
another cyclone in Bay of
Bengal (India).

28-May-1964
A slow-moving funeral
cortege containing the
body of Jawaharlal Nehru
inched through the
streets of New Delhi
today. A million and a
half Indians lined the
route to pay final
respects to their beloved
leader.

28-May-1965
Fire and explosion at
Dhori mine in Dhanbad,
India kills 400.

28-May-1966
B. S. Chawla was
appointed as the
Narcotics Commissioner of
India. He headed this
office till 21-02-1973.

 

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28-May-1968
Bhagwan Gopinathji died.
He was a great devotee of
Shiva and Shakti and took
intense ""Sadhana"". His
disciples and devotees
set up an ashram at
Kharyar in Srinagar in his
n

28-May-1970
All India Trade Union
Congress was divided.

28-May-1972
Edward VIII, King of Great
Britain/N Ireland/emperor
(India 1936), passed away
at the age of 77.

28-May-1978
The kiss comes to the
Hindi screen in 'Love
Sublime,' and is seen as a
sign of what the govt.
calls greater 'creative
freedom,' after Indira
Gandhi's authoritarian
rule at Bombay.

28-May-1988
The first Cultural
Exchange Programme was
signed between India and
China.

28-May-1989
Kerala diocese of
Marathakavalli was the
first Christian priest in
India.

28-May-1992
Indo-US naval exercises
begin.

28-May-1996
13-day-old BJP-led
minority coalition govt.
headed by A.B. Vajpayee
quits at the end of a two-
day debate on a motion
of confidence.

28-May-1996
BJP Govt. incapable of
assembling a majority
after two weeks. A left-
wing coalition takes over
headed by new prime
minister H. D. Deve
Gowda, Janata Dal leader
and United Front
coalition government. He
held this office till 12

 

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28-May-1997
Former Union Ministers
Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari,
R.K. Dhawan and
Madhavrao Scindia
discharged in the Jain
hawala case by special
judge V.B. Gupta.

28-May-1998
India takes retaliatory
measures against
Australia for its unilateral
action.