This Day in "History"

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 23

23-June-1661
Princess Catherine of
Portugal wed King of
England Charles II.
Portugal gave island of
Mumbai to England as
present. The British got
Bombay as dowry from
Portugal.

23-June-1757
The Battle of Plassey
started between Robert
Clive, incharge of British
army, and Nawab of
Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula.
In this battle Robert Clive
won control of Bengal.

23-June-1810
Duncan Dock of Bombay
was completed.

23-June-1894
Edward VIII, king of Great
Brit/N-Ireland and
emperor of India (1936),
was born.

23-June-1895
Kali Charan Ghosh, great
Hindi writer, was born at
Calcutta.

23-June-1911
King George V was today
crowned ""King of the
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland and of
the British Dominions
beyond the seas,
Defender of the Faith,
Emperor of India,"" at
Westminster Abbey in a
ceremony evoking the
continuity and tradition
of the British monarchy
magnificent spectacle.
Thousands of spectators
crowded the streets for
hours, hoping to catch a
glimpse of the royal
procession. Partition of
Bengal notified to create
the Presidency of Bengal.
The Imperial capital
shifted from Calcutta to
De

23-June-1920
Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi,
senior leader of Janata
Party in Karnataka, was
born.

23-June-1927
All India Radio's
broadcasting service
started in 1927 by
privately owned
transmitter at Bombay
and Calcutta.

23-June-1930
The Simon Commission
recommends a federal
India and the separation
of Burma at London.

23-June-1935
Ram Kolarkar, famous
marathi author and
editor, was born.

23-June-1942
Jabbar Patel, film
producer, was born.

23-June-1946
Gandhiji advises Congress
not to enter Interim
Government, but only
Constituent Assembly.

23-June-1953
Dr. Shyama Prasad
Mukherjee, great social
reformer, politician,
national leader and
founder of JanSangh
Party, died at Srinagar
while in detention.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

23-June-1958
Tamil leaders in Madras
call on Nehru to lobby for
better treatment of
Ceylon's Tamil minority.

23-June-1971
Sriprakash, freedom
fighter, prolific writer and
member of the AICC,
passed away.

23-June-1975
Prannath Thapar, former
Chief of Army, died.

23-June-1980
Sanjay Gandhi, great
Indian politician and
younger son of Indira
Gandhi, died in a plane
crash. He was recently
appointed as the General
Secretary of the AICC (I).

23-June-1984
An Air-India jumbo jet
plunged into the Atlantic
Ocean near Ireland today,
killing all 329 people on
board. Indian officials
said the crash apparently
was caused by a bomb
placed aboard the jetliner
by a Sikh extremist group
as retaliation for an army
raid.

23-June-1985
Air India Jumbo Jet
Boeing 747 'Kanishka'
which was travelling to
Mumbai from Montreal
crashed into the Atlantic
Ocean after explosion
near Ireland. 329 people
on board died.

23-June-1987
D. Chakraborty was
appointed as the
Narcotics Commissioner of
India. He headed this
office till 02-07-1991.

23-June-1990
Harindranath
Chatopadhyay, famous
poet, actor and former
member of Parliament,
passed away.

23-June-1992
Tin Bigha Day protest in
India of corridor opening
to Bangladesh.

23-June-1993
Motilal Vohra made
governor of UP.

23-June-1993
RBI cuts minimum
lending rate by 1\%.

23-June-1994
Two Britishers held
hostage by terrorists in
Kashmir for 17 days were
set free.

23-June-1997
India and Pakistan reach
accord on joint working
groups to address
outstanding issues
including Kashmir and
Siachen.

23-June-1997
Communication
equipment worth several
crores destroyed and
Chennai's land and
mobile telephone
networks thrown out of
gear in a fire at Anna
Road telephone exchange.

23-June-1997
Acharya Tulsi, the founder
of Terapanthi sector in
Jainism, died. (20-10-98).

23-June-2000
Indian journalist
Palagummi Sainath gets
Amnesty International
Global award for human
rights journalism..

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 24

24-June-1763
Murshidabad was
captured by the East
India Company under
Major Adams for the
second time, and Mir
Jaffar was declared the
King.

24-June-1869
Hari Chapekar Damodar
was born virtually. He was
the first terrorist of India.

24-June-1885
Tara Singh, freedom
fighter and leader of Akali
Dal Master, was born in
the village Haryal, District
Rawalpindi.

24-June-1897
Padmashree Pandit
Omkarnath Thakur,
famous music director of
Gwalior Gharana, was
born at Gujrat.

24-June-1901
John Thottam (Sir Marry
Benigna C.D.) Marry,
great poetess and
teacher, was born in
Elangi village at Kerala.

24-June-1908
Gopinath, famous
Kathakali dancer, was
born.

24-June-1928
Mrinal Keshav Gore,
leader in Maharashtra,
was born.

24-June-1946
Gandhiji meets Cabinet
Mission.

24-June-1946
Congress party rejects
British plan for
provisional govt. pending
constitution in New Delhi.

24-June-1961
Indian Manufactured
Supersonic fighter HF24
flew took to air for the
first time.

24-June-1966
Bombay-New York Air
India flight crashes into
Mont Blanc (Switz), 117
die.

24-June-1966
Atul Chandrakant Bedade,
cricketer (Indian ODI
batsman from 1994), was
born in Bombay.

24-June-1969
Ted Hecht, actor (Time to
Kill, Song of India,
Gangster), passed away.

24-June-1974
India all out for 42 in
Lord's Test cricket in 77
mins.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

24-June-1986
Government announced
that unmarried mothers
under its employment
would also get maternity
leave.

24-June-1989
A majority of opposition
members in the Lok
Sabha resign on the issue
of CAG report on the
Bofors gun deal.

24-June-1990
Defence scientists
successfully test fired
country's first third
generation anti-tank
missile 'NAG'.

24-June-1990
President R.
Venkataraman issues
notification formally
constituting an Inter-
State Council.

24-June-1991
Jayalalitha ministry sworn
in in Tamil Nadu.

24-June-1991
K. Karunakaran ministry
assumes power in Kerala.

24-June-1991
Pranab Mukherjee
appointed Dy. Chairman
of the Planning
Commission.

24-June-1991
The first-ever BJP ministry
led by Kalyan Singh takes
over in UP.

24-June-1991
Two LIC officers burnt to
death in Kashmir.

24-June-1993
Nanchil K. Manoharan,
former DMK Finance
Minister, expelled from
the party.

24-June-1996
CBI grills PV Prabhakar
Rao again (urea scam).

24-June-1996
Cong(I) enters into an
electoral alliance with
Bahujan Samaj Party for
forthcoming Assembly
election in UP.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 25

25-June-1529
Babur reached to his capital Agra
after winning Bengal.

25-June-1658
6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
arrested his father Shahjahan and
put him in Agra Fort Jail.

25-June-1880
Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great
educationist, poet, editor,
professor, writer and founder-
member of the Hindustani
Academy, was born at Mustafabad
village in the Rae Bareli district of
U.P.

25-June-1888
Lord Louis Mountbatten, British
politician, was born.

25-June-1900
Louis Mountbatten, last British
Voiceroy and first Governor General
of independent India, was born at
England.

25-June-1908
Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief
Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was
born.

25-June-1922
Satyendranath Datta, famous
Bengali poet, passed away.

25-June-1931
Vishwanath Pratapsing, former
Prime Minister of India, was born.

25-June-1932
India played their first official test
match on the ground of Lords
against England.

25-June-1943
No. 8 Squadron started functioning
absorbing the remaining coastal
defence flight personnel, and also
issued with a vengeance to achieve
operational status.

25-June-1945
Lord Vevil talk to the Indian
political leaders.

25-June-1975
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
signed the declaration of
Emergency Rule in India. Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi
implemented the same very next
day.

25-June-1983
India won 'Prudential World Cup'
Cricket Championship held in
England after defeating West
Indies.

25-June-1992
BJP bags eleven seats in the
biennial elections to the Rajya
Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.

25-June-1993
Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the
wake of his role in the securities
scam.

25-June-1994
Bombay's former underworld don
Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.

25-June-1994
Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief
Justice of Supreme Court, died.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

25-June-1996
Sunderlal Bahuguna, noted
environmentalist, ends 74-day
repentance fast at Rajghat
following assurance from PM Deve
Gowda.

25-June-1997
USA & India sign a new bilateral
treaty for the extradition of fugitive
offenders.

25-June-1998
Sikh high priests exonerate the
Akali Dal leader and chief of the
Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak
Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra,
of charges of violating a
``Hukumnama'' (religious edict)
issued by the Akal Takht, which
prescribed a complete boycott of
the members of the Nirankari
missions for their ''blasphemous''
activities.

25-June-1999
PSCB emerged men's and women's
champions in the inter-
institutional table tennis in
Gandhidham.

25-June-2000
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior
hockey championship in Kuala
Lumpur.

25-June-2000
The Government agrees to the
bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.

 

[Rahulan Raj]

Boring.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History
Events for June 26
26-June-1888
Narayan Shripad Rajhans
(Balgandharv), famous
singer and actor, was
born.
26-June-1888
Ghanshyam Das Birla,
great freedom fighter and
social reformer, was born
at Pilani.
26-June-1906
M.P. Sivagnanam, famous
Tamil writer and social
worker, was born at
Madras.
26-June-1954
Nehru, Chou En-lai
pledge good-neighbor
policy at New Delhi.
26-June-1955
Poland and India affirm
Panchsheel.
26-June-1975
Chaudhary Charan Singh,
freedom fighter and Chief
Minister of UP, arrested
by British Government.
26-June-1982
First Boeing 707 of Air
India `Gaurishankar' was
crashed at Sahar airport
(Bombay)
26-June-1983
Five hundred killed or
missing as monsoon
floods hit the Indian
state of Gujarat.
26-June-1991
Sharad Pawar joins Union
Cabinet as Defence
Minister.
26-June-1992
The Tin Bigha corridor
leased to Bangladesh as
per the Indo-Bangladesh
agreement.
26-June-1995
Madhya Pradesh declared
""""Tiger State"""" as it
homes one sixth of the
world's tiger pop
26-June-1997
India declares its
chemical weapon
stockpiles and storage
facilities as part of its
obligations as signatory to
the Chemical Weapons
Convention.

 

[Thakur]

June 27

363 Roman Emperor Julian dies, ending the Pagan Revival.
1743 English King George defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria.
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn.
1862 Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill–the third engagement of the Seven Days’ campaign.
1864 General Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
1871 The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.
1905 The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies.
1918 Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.
1923 Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.
1924 Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures.
1942 The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel.
1944 Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France.
1950 The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea.
1963 Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
1973 President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing.
1985 The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.
Born on June 27

1462 Louis XII, King of France (1498-1515).
1682 Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718).
1869 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born American anarchist, feminist and birth control advocate.
1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet and writer.
1880 Helen Keller, American educator.
1888 Antoinette Perry, actress and director, namesake of the "Tony" Awards.
1913 Richard b*ssell, novelist and playwright.
1913 Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player.
1920 I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter.
1926 Frank O’Hara, American poet.
1927 Bob Keeshan, American television actor, best known as "Captain Kangaroo."
1953 Alice McDermott, writer (That Night, At Weddings and Wakes).

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 27

27-June-1838
Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay
(Chatterjee), famous
novelist, ""the father of
modern Indian fiction""
and writer of national
song 'Vande Mataram',
was borm at Katalpara
near Naihati, West Bengal.
Some of his writings are
'Anandmath' and 'Kapal
Kundala'. He was among
the first two Bengalee
Gradua

27-June-1839
Raja Ranjit Singh, ruler of
Punjab, passed away (27
or 28).

27-June-1894
Chhaganbapa (Chhaganlal
Karamshi Parekh), great
social worker, was born.

27-June-1906
Establishment of
`Maharashtra Sahitya
Parishad'.

27-June-1915
Khanderao Moreshwar
Rangnekar, 3 test
matches, 33 runs, vs
Australia in 1947-48, was
born at Mumbai.

27-June-1917
Khanderao Moreshwar
Rangnekar, cricketer
(batted in 3 Tests India v
Australia 1947-48), was
born in Maharashtra.

27-June-1922
Vaidyalingam Akhiladam
Perunglur, Gyanpeeth
awardee and famous Tamil
author, was born.