This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 11

11-June-1901
Pramathanath Bishi,
professor and Hindi
writer, was born.

11-June-1907
Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi,
famous Hindi writer, was
born in Mehmadabad,
Gujarat .

11-June-1921
Snehlata, social reformer
and politician, was born
at Mathura, U.P.

11-June-1930
A cyclonic storm blew a
train off the rails near
Himmatnagar, Gujarat,
killing at least one person
and injuring many more.

11-June-1931
Purushottam Vishnu
Behre, great editor, story
and novel writer, was
born.

11-June-1932
Minu Modi, famous
industrialist, was born.

11-June-1946
Viceroy interviewed
Gandhiji, and mooted
proposal of Coalition
Government at Centre.

11-June-1964
Dr. Jayant Narlikar, great
mathematician of India,
submitted his thesis to
Royal Society of London.

11-June-1976
Indira Gandhi and
Brezhnev sign the Moscow
Declaration of Friendship
and Cooperation.

11-June-1983
Ghanshyam Das Birla,
great freedom fighter,
social reformer, pioneer of
Indian business, industry,
and nationalist, died at
London at the age of 89.

 

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11-June-1984
574 Sikh army deserters
arrested.

11-June-1991
Forty die in rioting in
Srinigar, Kashmir.

11-June-1991
Over 106.6 million voters
go to the second phase of
national polls.

11-June-1995
PM leaves for 4-day
official visit to France.

11-June-1996
Narasimha Rao's name
figures in fresh FIR on
bribing JMM MPs case.

11-June-1997
BSE sensitive index
reaches 3927

11-June-1997
I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts
that India had not
deployed the `Prithvi'
ballistic missile anywhere
in the country or on the
border.

11-June-1997
Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit
in the men's section and
Nisha Millet in the
women's section
adjudged best sports
persons of the National
Games.

11-June-1998
Chetak helicopter of IAF
rescued a Border Security
Force Jawan stuck waist
deep in quicksand.

11-June-1999
India provided
incontrovertible tape
evidence of Pakistan's
involvement in the Kargil
sector. The Indian army
killed 23 intruders in the
Batalik and Dras sectors
but lost 15 of its men.

11-June-2000
Assailants gun down 12
upper caste persons,
including eight of a family
in Bihar's Nawada
district.

11-June-2000
Rajesh Pilot, Congress(I)
leader and former Union
Minister, died in a road
accident in his home
constituency, Dausa.
11-June-2000
27 army personnel die
after the bus carrying
them plunges into a
gorge at a spot 80 km
from Jammu.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 12

12-June-1761
Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb),
third peshwa, died after
losing in the battle of
Panipat. (12 or 23)

12-June-1891
Gandhiji sailed for India and
reached in July.

12-June-1894
Busushottam Vishwanath
Bapat, internationally famed
Pali language expert,
translator and editor, was
born.

12-June-1897
Possibly the most severe
quake in history strikes
Assam, shock waves felt over
an area size of Europe
(negligible death toll).

12-June-1947
Gandhiji addresses Congress
Working Committee.

12-June-1952
J&K Assembly decided to
terminate hereditary
monarchy.

12-June-1960
783 Sikhs are arrested while
demonstrating for an
independent Sikh state in
New Delhi.

12-June-1970
Gopinath Kaviraj,
Padmavibhushan awardee
and critic, passed away.

12-June-1972
D. G. Tendulkar, historian
who had written the
autobiography of Mahatma
Gandhi, died.

12-June-1975
Allahabad court voids Indira
Gandhi's election as premier,
citing corruption at New
Delhi.

12-June-1975
Drugaprasad Dhar, former
deputy president of Planning
Commission, died.

12-June-1976
Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit
Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and
master, died at Varanasi.

12-June-1990
CPI(M) accuses Communist
Party of Soviet Union of
departing from the basic
ideology of Marxism-Leninism
in the name of correcting
past distortions.

12-June-1990
Indian National Satellite
(INSAT-1D) launched. This is
an operational multi-purpose
communication and
meteorology satellite. It is
still in service. It was
launched by US Delta launch
vehicle, Kennedy Space
Centre in Florida, USA.

12-June-1996
India's new prime minister
H. D. Deve Gowda wins vote
of confidence in the Lok
Sabha and will rule as head
of the United Front coalition.

 

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12-June-1997
Jain hawala case dropped
against former ministers
Kamal Nath, B.D. Dhakne,
Chand Ram and Bhuta Singh.

12-June-1997
Sitaram Kesri elected
president of Congress I (6224
votes. Sharad Pawar-888;
Rajesh Pilot-354).

12-June-1997
Mihir Sen, long distance
swimmer, died.

12-June-1999
Jalagam Vengal Rao, former
Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh, died in Hyderabad.

12-June-2000
The Government appointed S.
K. Mahajan of Delhi High
Court as the chairman of the
one-man tribunal to
adjudicate whether or not
there was sufficient cause for
declaring LTTE as unlawful.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 13

13-June-1290
Jalal'ud-din Firuz Khalji
establishes the Khalji
dynasty at Delhi.

13-June-1290
Firuz Shah captured the
throne of Delhi and
Sultan Jalal'ud-din Khalji
called himself.

13-June-1731
Swedish East India
Company was formed. For
15 years King Fredrick of
Sweden gave the Company
a charter.

13-June-1757
Clive marched to
Murshidabad against
Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah
along with the force
comprising of 1800 British
and 2000 Indian soldiers
with eight canons.

13-June-1879
Ganesh Damodar
(Babarao) Savarkar,
revolutionary, was born.

13-June-1889
Salarjung, famous
administrator, was born.

13-June-1905
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji,
cricketer (England
1929-31), was born.

13-June-1918
Foundation stone was liad
of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir
Public Hall in Mumbai.

13-June-1927
Henry CK ""Clan"" Petty-
Fitzmaurice, Governor of
India (1888-94), passed
away at the age of

13-June-1931
Gandhi to live in a garret
amongst the poor in
London.
13-June-1932
Nirmalchandra Sen, great
revolutionary, died.

 

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13-June-1940
Revolutionary leader
Udham Singh was hanged
for charges of
assassinating Micheal
Odair, who was the
Governor General of
Punjab at the time of
Jalianwala Baug massacre.

13-June-1943
Netaji Subhashchandra
Bose started his journey
from Germany to Tokyo by
a submarine.

13-June-1965
Maninder Singh
Harbansingh Billa,
cricketer (Indian leftarm
spinner in 35 Tests
1982-93), was born in
Pune.

13-June-1966
60 people were killed in a
collision between two
suburban trains of
Bombay.

13-June-1973
Sir Ram Nath Chopra,
great professor of
Pharmacology of National
Drug Research Institute of
India, passed away.

13-June-1991
Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan
Director General, was shot
at in Delhi by suspected
Punjab terrorists.

13-June-1992
Security scam: assets of
three SBI officials
attached.

13-June-1992
Purushottam Diwakar
Dhavle, famous journalist,
passed away.

13-June-1995
India and France sign
Bilateral Investment
Protection pact.

13-June-1996
Govt. extends for another
2 years the ban imposed
on LTTE w.e.f. 14/6/1996
under Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, 1967.

13-June-1996
Ramakrishna Hegde, JD
leader and former
Karnataka CM, expelled
from the party for 6 years
by JD president Laloo
Prasad Yadav for anti-
party activities.

13-June-1997
At least 60 persons were
feared killed and several
injured in a fire in Uphaar
Grand cinema in South
Delhi.

13-June-1998
India rejects G-8
prescriptions saying they
are ''coercive and
intrusive'' and intend to
freeze the nuclear weapon
capabilities of New Delhi
and Islamabad.

13-June-1999
The Indian army secures
the strategic Tololing
peak in the Dras sector.
13-June-2000

Major General Manuel
Saavedra of Uruguay
appointed Chief Military
observer of the U.N.
Mission monitoring the
LoC in Kashmir.

13-June-2000
Yashwant Sinha, Finance
Minister, announces a
one-time settlement of
outstanding loans below
Rs. 10 crores in a move
aimed at ridding the
public sector banks of Rs.
51,000 crores of bad
loans.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 14

14-June-1880
Satish Chandra Dasgupta,
rural Scientist, was born.

14-June-1886
Orphanage for little girls
was established.

14-June-1905
Smt. Hirabai Barodekar,
famous veteran
Maharashtrian classical
singer, was born.

14-June-1909
E.M.S. Namboodiripad was
born in Palghat in Kerala

14-June-1929
Jatindra Nath Das was
arrested in Calcutta.

14-June-1947
Congress Working
Committee met at New
Delhi to draft the
resolution to be placed
before All India Congress
Committee on the
acceptance of Mountbatten
plan for the partition of
India.

14-June-1958
Dr. C.V. Raman receives
the Lenin Peace Prize in
Kremlin.

14-June-1961
Sir Karyamanikkam
Shrinivas Krishnan died.

14-June-1985
M.C. Sharma was
appointed as the Narcotics
Commissioner of India. He
headed this office till
10-12-1985

14-June-1987
Rajiv Gandhi, PM, rules out
termination of Rs. 1700
crore Bofors gun deal.

 

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14-June-1990
Veerendra Verma sworn in
as the new Governor of
Punjab and Administrator
of Chandigarh.

14-June-1991
Punjab was declared
""disturbed area""; army
deplo

14-June-1992
Tin Bigha activists lathi-
charged in the Tin Bigha
corridor in Coochbehar.

14-June-1995
RBI announces the
introduction of appointing
ombudsmen to redress
grievances and disputes of
bank customers.

14-June-1996
CBI grills PV Prabhakar
Rao, son of former PM, for
his involvement in the Rs.
133 crore NFL urea import
scandal.

14-June-1997
India expresses regret over
""inadvertent intrusion"" of
IAF helicopter into
Bangladesh territ

14-June-1997
Rajya Sabha chairman
recognises split in AIADMK
parliamentary party and
designates Jayalalitha-led
AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and
Thirunavukkarasu group as
AIADMK(II).

14-June-1998
S. Vijayalakshmi wins
National women's `A'
chess title in Mumbai.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 15

15-June-1659
Aurangzeb declared as
the Emperor at Delhi.

15-June-1899
Roy Chowdhury
Devipasad, modern Indian
sculptor and painter, was
born.

15-June-1907
Narayan Ganesh Goray,
freedom fighter and
socialist, was born at
Hindala (Maharashtra).

15-June-1908
Stock Exchange of
Calcutta was opened of
Baldeodas Daduawala and
Overened.

15-June-1937
Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji,
cricketer (Indian keeper
in 60's), was born in
Jamnagar.

15-June-1947
All-India Congress
accepts British plan for
partition of India in New
Delhi.

15-June-1948
Rajah Annamalai Chettiar,
famous musician, social
worker and Governor of
the Imperial Bank of
India, passed away.

15-June-1949
Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer,
famous poet, writer,
editor and literature,
died. He was 72.

15-June-1953
Internal Air Route
Corporation of India was
established.

15-June-1960
Bardwan University was
established in West
Bengal.

 

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15-June-1966
U.S. resumes full
economic aid to India and
Pakistan.

15-June-1969
Dr. Darashaw Nosherwan
Wadia, great pioneer in
Indian Geology and
professor in development
of geo-scientific research
in the country, passed
away at New Delhi at the
age of 86.

15-June-1982
Supreme Court rules that
all children, regardless of
citizenship, are entitled
to public education.

15-June-1986
K. K. Tarapore, cricketer
(Test for India 1948), was
killed in a motor-scooter
accident.

15-June-1988
Dalai Lama recoganised
the rights of China in
foreign affairs and Army
Operations in Tibet
region.

15-June-1990
Punjab Government
returned gold and other
valuables seized from
Golden Temple during
the 1984 Blue Star
operation to SGPC.

15-June-1991
About 50\% of the 180.3
million electorate cast
their votes in the final
phase of Lok Sabha
elections.

15-June-1991
General Election (10th) of
India ends. In this
election Indian National
Congress won.

15-June-1993
PM Narasimha Rao visits
Oman; India and Oman
decide to give each other
MFN status.