1469
Guru Nanak Dev, originally known as Nankana Sahib, was born on Baisakhi in a Khatri family in Talwandi Rae Bhoe in Pakistan. Guru Nanak’s birthday has been traditionally celebrated on Katik Poornamashi. Althought the correct birth date has been established as Vaisakh 1 (April 14), it will continue to be celebrated on Katik Poornamashi until such time as it is changed to Vaisakh 1. (Most Sikhs in the present day consider themselves members of a separate religion).
1563
Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born.
1659
Aurangzeb defeated his brother Dara Shukoh to capture the throne of Delhi.
1775
The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first American society dedicated to the cause of abolition, was founded in Philadelphia on this day in 1775. The society changed its name to the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage in 1784.
1865
John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1891
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji ‘Babasaheb’ Ambedkar, India’s great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Mhow, MP.
1907
P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
1919
Gandhiji confessed at Nadiad his “”Himalayan miscalculation”” regarding satyagraha martial law declared in Pun
1944
Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter ‘S. S. Fort Stikine’ which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.
1948
Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India.
1952
Three integrated Railway Zones, Northern, North Eastern and Eastern inaugurated.
1979
Sanjiva Reddy, President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
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Guru nanak was not born on 14 april
Its 10th guru gobind singh ji founded khalsa ਪੰਥ ਨ this plz ।।। correct this
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