1459
Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur.
1666
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj met Aurangzeb and was arrested.
1780
After a siege that began on April 2, 1780, Americans suffered their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina.
1906
Gandhiji supported the “Home Rule” for India in the name of ”justice and for good of human beings”.
1915
Rash Behari Bose, a revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ”Sanuki Maru” under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces.
1930
Admiral R. H. Tahiliyani, former Navy Chief of India was born.
1937
At London’s Westminster Abbey, George VI and his consort, Lady Elizabeth, were crowned king and queen of the United Kingdom as part of a coronation ceremony that dates back more than a millennium.
1949
S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US.
1952
Washington welcomed its first female ambassador, India’s Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
1955
The PM laid the foundation stone for the National Museum.
1966
Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigned.
1984
Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras.
1987
Britain’s HMS Hermes became Indian Navy’s second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
1992
Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) became the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
1993
Lok Sabha okayed extension of President’s rule in the former BJP-ruled states.
1993
Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
1995
Supreme court stayed Tamil Nadu Governor’s orders allowing Dr. Subramaniam Swamy to prosecute Chief Minister Dr. Jayalalitha under Prevention of Corruption Act.
1997
Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agreed to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.
1998
Bill Clinton, US President, asked India to sign the CTBT.
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