This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 6

6-June-1596
Sikh Guru Har Govindji,
the sixth sikh guru, was
born. He fashioned a
military role for the Sikhs.

6-June-1867
Baba Kharak Singh,
freedom fighter, was born
at Sialkot.

6-June-1890
Gopinath Bardoloi,
architect of modern
Assam, freedom fighter
and leader, was born.

6-June-1891
Vanktesh Iyengar Masti,
famous Kannad poet, story
writer, novelist, playwright
and critic, was born.

6-June-1903
A full length theatre plays
like 'Bankimchandrer
Sitararn', 'Alibaba' ,
'Bhramar', 'Hariraj' ,
'Sarla' and 'Buddhadeb'
were released at Classic
Theatre. These plays were
picturised by Hiralal Sen
with support of great
dramatist Amar Nath
Dutt. The main roles were
performed by Amar Dutt,
N.C. Basu and Kusum
Kumari and rest of the
characters belonged to
the Classic Theatre of
Calcutta. They received a
great applause from the
audience.

6-June-1903
Hiralal Sen shot the first
Indian Advertisment
sequences for Jabakusum
(hair tonic) and Edward's
Tonic.

6-June-1907
John Morley, U.K.
Government State
Secretary, declares ""it
will not withdraw from
India under any
circumstance

6-June-1909
Morappakam Joysam
Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test
India v England 1933-34),
was born in
Maduranthakam, Madras.

6-June-1916
Lord Kitchener, the
premier soldier of the
British Empire, passed
away tragically last night
as the ''Hampshire'', the
cruiser on which he was
traveling to Russia to
boost sagging morale,
struck a mine or was
torpedoed off the Orkney
Islands and sank,
drowning all aboard. Life
in London came to a
standstill, while Paris and
Washington were shocked
by the news. In the last
half-century, through
tireless energy and
devotion to imperial duty,
Horatio Herbert Kitchener,
66, commanded in
Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt,
Sudan, South Africa, and
India. Two years ago, he
had become the War
Secretary.

6-June-1922
Gopalan Morappakam
Joysam, cricketer, was
born at Maduranthakan,
in Tamil Nadu. He
received the Padmashree
in 1964.

6-June-1924
S. R. Bommai, former
President of Janata Dal,
was born.

 

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6-June-1935
Harry Crews, great US
writer and actor (Indian
Runner), was born.

6-June-1947
Gandhiji writes to
Mountbatten, with
Pakistan conceded, to
persuade Jinnah to
amicable settle all
outstanding points with
Congress.

6-June-1961
Central Institute of
Fisheries Education, a
deemed university, was
established in Mumbai to
impart post-graduate
education and training,
mainly to the in-service
fisheries personnel of the
country to provide trained
manpower for the
fisheries developmental
activities.

6-June-1962
General Election ( 3rd) of
India ends.

6-June-1969
Sunil Bandacharya Joshi,
cricketer (Indian Test left-
arm spinner 1996), was
born in Gadag.

6-June-1981
The worst-ever railway
accident took place in
Bihar when a train
plunged in Samastipur
river.

6-June-1982
Devraj Ars, former Chief
Minister of Karnataka,
passed away.

6-June-1986
Militant Sikhs in Amritsar
call for the murder of
Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief
Minister of Punjab and
J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of
Police.

 

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6-June-1990
GOI decides to extend
validity of passports to 10
years.

6-June-1992
Ordinance issued to
attach the properties of
persons involved in the
security scam.

6-June-1994
The 20-day old Limboo
Ministry in Sikkim wins
vote of confidence.

6-June-1996
14 Janata Dal legislators
revolt in Karnataka against
the composition of the J H
Patel ministry.

6-June-1996
Benazir Bhutto,Pakistan
PM, gives green signal for
opening up trade with
India.

6-June-1997
New economic grouping
BIST-EC (Bangladesh-
India-Sri Lanka-Thailand
Economic Cooperation
forum) comes into being.

6-June-1997
Five killed and 17 injured
in a bus explosion in
Gurdaspur district of
Punjab.

6-June-1997
U.S. Congress honours
Mother Teresa with a gold
medal.

6-June-1998
All IAF Meteorological
Sections were put on high
alert from 06 Jun 98, and
constant interaction with
India Meteorological
Department (IMD) at
Mumbai and the (IMD)
Centre at Ahmedabad
resulted in 24 hours
tracking and plotting of
the cyclone, which was
passed down as forecasts
to Service and civil
authorities in the
Saurashtra and Kutch
region.

6-June-1999
Paes-Bhupathi bagged
their maiden Grand Slam
doubles crown, defeating
Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff
Tarango in the final.

6-June-2000
Abhijit Kunte wins the
National `A' chess
championship at Mumbai.



Today in Indian History - Events for June 6

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 7

7-June-1539
Sher Shah defeats
Humayun near Buxar at
Chausa and becomes
emperor of Delhi.

7-June-1606
Guru Arjundev, fifth Guru
of Sikhs, passed away.
7-June-1631
Begum Mumtaj Mahal,
wife of Shah Jahan,
Emperor of India, passed
away at Burhanpur a few
hours after the birth of a
daughter. She was
married in 1612 and the
Taj Mahal was built for
her.

7-June-1955
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian
Prime Minister, visited
U.S.S.R.

7-June-1965
Ashutosh Kali, great
revolutionary, passed
away.

7-June-1974
Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
star, was born. He is the
winner of French Open
1997 (mixed doubles) and
1999 (doubles) and
Wimbledon 1999.

7-June-1979
Bhaskara-I, first
experimental satellite for
Earth resources/
meteorology remote
sensing and the Second
Satellite of India,
launched. This satellite
carried TV and microwave
cameras. It was launched
by Russian launch vehicle
'Intercosmos'.

 

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7-June-1984
Indian Army troops, sent
to Punjab to quell Sikh
violence, stormed the
Golden Temple in
Amritsar, the holiest of
Sikh shrines. More than
400 persons were
reported killed in the
assault at the shrine,
including Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale.

7-June-1989
Sheetal Pandya set up a
world record at the age of
5 years.

7-June-1993
Sai Baba escapes attempt
on life. Four assailants
and two bodyguards were
killed.

7-June-1996
Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of
IAF becomes the first
Indian to jump from a
parachute and hoist the
national flag at the North
Pole.

7-June-1997
At least 37 persons were
feared killed in a fire in
''yagyashala'' at Thanjavur
Big Temple.

7-June-1997
Mahesh Bhupathi
becomes the first Indian
to win a Grand Slam title
when he and Japan's Rika
Hiraki claim the mixed
doubles.

7-June-1998
India emerges World
Bank's single largest
borrower with cumulative
loans of 44 billion dollars.

7-June-1999
Supreme Court, through
an interim order, stayed
the execution of the four
accused in the Rajiv
Gandhi assassination case
till July 19, 1999.

7-June-2000
Telecom Commission
approves the free phone
bonanza for all telecom
employees announced by
the Union
Communications Minister
Ram Vilas Paswan.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 8

8-June-1897
Manindranath Basu,
Bengali story writer and
novelist, was born.

8-June-1906
Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer
(bro of Wazir Ali, India's
1st Test 1932), born at
Jullunder.

8-June-1915
Geeta Rahasya', written by
Lokmanya Tilak, published.

8-June-1915
P.C.Kuttikrishnan 'Urub',
Malyalam story writer and
novelist, was born.

8-June-1929
Ventappa Musandra
Muddiah, cricketer (Indian
off-spinner in 2 Tests
1959-61), was born in
Bangalore.

8-June-1936
Akashwani Radio was later
changed into All India
Radio (AIR) in 1958.

8-June-1948
Malabar Princess', Air
India's first international
flight, takes off from
Bombay to London via
Cairo and Geneva. This was
weekly air service wasR
started between India to
United Kingdom.

8-June-1968
Madhuri Mani Iyyer,
famous singer of Karnatak
Gharana, passed away.

8-June-1990
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai,
Nepal PM, and his Indian
counterpart V.P.Singh
decide to restore normal
ties.

8-June-1992
55-60\% polling takes
place in the Andhra, Bihar,
W. Bengal and Delhi by-
elections.

8-June-1992
Assets of 31 persons
including Harshad Mehta
attached.

8-June-1997
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,
Assam Chief Minister, has
a narrow escape as a
powerful remote-controlled
bomb exploded in
Maligaon area of Guwahati.

8-June-1998
A Disaster Management
Cell (DMC) under the
direct command of the Air
Officer Commanding-in-
Chief, South Western Air
Command, was set up at
the Command Operations
Room to liaise with the
State Government and
initiate necessary actions.
All aircrafts were
evacuated from IAF bases
at Jamnagar, Bhuj and
Naliya and flown to pre-
determined destinations.
In this meticulously
planned and smoothly
executed drill, more than
60 aircrafts (including
helicopters) were flown
out.

8-June-1998
Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian
President, died in Abuja of
heart attack.

 

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8-June-1999
ATP announced Paes-
Bhupathi as No. 1 ranked
doubles team. In
individual doubles ranking,
Bhupathi and Paes were
No. 1 and 2 respectively.
8-June-2000
Bomb blasts rock churches
in three states (A.P,
Karnataka and Goa).


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[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 9

9-June-1659
Dara Shikoh was handed
over to Aurangzeb's army
by Jiwan Khan, a Baluchi
whose life was saved by
Dara.

9-June-1752
French army surrenders to
the English in
Trichinopoly, India.

9-June-1834
Dr. William Carey, great
writer and social worker,
died.

9-June-1900
Birsa Munda, freedom
fighter and leader, died in
Ranchi Jail.

9-June-1909
Baburao Arnalkar, famous
detective story writer, was
born.

9-June-1923
Idris Hassan Latif, Air
Chief Marshal, was born
at Hyderabad, Deccan.

9-June-1923
K. Alagirisami, famous
journalist, playwright and
story writer, was born.

9-June-1948
Laloo Prasad Yadav,
former Chief Minister of
Bihar, was born.

9-June-1949
Kiran Bedi, the first
woman Indian Police
Service Officer, was born
in Amritsar, Punjab.

9-June-1957
General Election ( 2nd) of
India ends.

9-June-1964
Lal Bahadur Shastri
became the second Prime
Minister of India when
the country was shocked
of Jawaharlal Nehru's
death and Indo-China
war. Shastri gave the
quotation ""Jai Jawan Jai
Kisan"" which motivated
the war-affected Indians
to boost their morale. He
remained in this office till
he died on January 11,
1966 at Taskent. In his
cabinet, Indira Gandhi
served as Minister of
Information and Broadcast

 

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9-June-1967
Narayan Shripad Rajhans,
alias Bal Gandharva, went
into a coma in Bombay
and never regained his
consciousness.

9-June-1980
M. G. Ramachandran's
second AIADMK ministry
takes office.

9-June-1986
ICMR set up a network of
Reference/Surveillance
Centres for AIDS in almost
all states of India.

9-June-1986
First AIDS death reported
from a private hospital in
Mumbai.

9-June-1991
A question paper was
leaked due to which the
Civil Services preliminary
examination was
cancelled.

9-June-1991
Raj Khosla, famous film
producer and director,
passed away.

9-June-1992
LDF wrests Narakal while
the UDF retains the Tanur
assembly seat in Kerala.

9-June-1992
Rajesh Khanna (Congress-
I) defeats Shatrughan
Sinha to wrest the New
Delhi Lok Sabha seat from
the BJP.

9-June-1994
Yogi Dhirendra
Bhramachari,
[controversial Flying
Swami], hindu saint, died
in an air crash near
Jammu. He was 70.

9-June-1997
Portfolio changes were
effected by I K Gujral in
Union Cabinet.

9-June-1997
At least 50 persons were
killed and 5,000 families
affected in a landslide
triggered by heavy rains
in Gangktok.

9-June-1998
Gujarat was hit by a
cyclone killing 1,000
people in six days.

9-June-1998
81 persons are killed as
cyclone hits the
Saurashtra and Kutch
regions of Gujarat and
Jalore district of
Rajasthan. Subsequently,
the toll is put at 934 in
the Kutch-Saurashtra
region alone.

9-June-1998
The rupee plunges to an
all-time low of Rs.
42.23/25 against the
dollar.

9-June-1999
The Indian army occupies
two key positions in the
Batalik sector.

9-June-2000
The CBI-designated court
frames charges against
Bihar Chief Minister Rabri
Devi and RJD president
Laloo Prasad Yadav in the
disproportionate assets
case.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 10

10-June-1246
Allauddin Masood Shah,
Sultan of Dehli, was thorwn
off the throne.

10-June-1832
Edwin Arnold, English
writer (Light of India), was
born.

10-June-1833
Azad Muhammad Jussain,
Urdu poet and
educationalist, was born.

10-June-1888
Balraj Bhalla, revolutionary,
was born.

10-June-1890
Sunday introduced as a
weekly holiday.

10-June-1891
Gandhiji called to the Bar.

10-June-1900
Jayantnath Chaudhary,
former General of Indian
Army General, was born.

10-June-1908
Mary Clubwala Jadhav,
politician and social
worker, was born.

10-June-1928
Papan Ramchand Panjabi,
cricket test umpire for 7
tests from 1978-81, was
born in Mumbai.

10-June-1942
77 Mountain Brigade was
raised at Sagar, Madhya
Pradesh.

10-June-1946
Gandhiji refused to
enthuse over allied victory
as it was not a ""victory of
truth over false-hoo

10-June-1955
Prakash Padukone,
internationally famous
Badminton player, was
born.

10-June-1957
Bhai Vir Singh, great
Punjabi poet, novelist,
social reformer, musician,
humanitarian and Padma
Bhushan awardee, died.

10-June-1959
Tyagmurti Goswami
Ganeshdutt, social worker,
died near Hardwar.

10-June-1966
MIG aeroplanes were
designed at Nashik.

10-June-1984
Top army commander killed
in Bihar; Sikh troops desert
unit.

10-June-1987
Jeevan, famous Hindi film
actor, died.

10-June-1997
Three Indians -
Kumaramangalam Birla,
Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai
Ambani - figure in the list
of Asia's top 100 super
rich.

10-June-1997
18 persons were killed and
10 wounded by suspected
National Liberation Front of
Tripura militants at
Thalchhara near Agartala.