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Today in History – 31 December

1560 Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan)...

Today in History – 15 December

1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him. 1749 Shahu Chattrapati, the grandson of Shivaji, died. 1803 East India Company captured...

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Today in History – 31 December

1560 Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan)...

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Today in History – 31 December

1560 Akbar's Vajir-E-Ajam 'Bairam Khan' was assassinated at Patan, Gujarat by an Afghan assassin Mubarak Khan Lohani ( whose father was slain by Bairam Khan)...

Today in History – 16 December

16 December 1515 Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder of Portuguese power in India, died at the age of 73 years. 16...

Today in History – 15 December

1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him. 1749 Shahu Chattrapati, the grandson of Shivaji, died. 1803 East India Company captured...

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Today in History – 23 August

1573 Akbar left for Agra when he received the report of widespread rebellion. He arrived in Ahmedabad by forced marches on the eleventh day. 1711 A British...

Today in History – 17 August

1761 William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till...

Today in History – 16 August

1812 During the War of 1812, American General William Hull surrenderd Fort Detroit and his army to the British without a fight. Hull, a 59-year-old...

Today in History – 15 August

1947 Indian Independence Day 1772 Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company. 1867 Bhartendu Harishchandra publishes a Hindi monthly 'Kavi Vachan Sudha'. 1947 Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the...

Today in History – 13 August

1638 Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. 1784 East India Company was appointed as the centralised Regulatory Authority through India by Pitt's India Act, which...

Today in History – 11 August

1347 Allau'd-din Hasan Gangu alias Jafar Khan. The Muslim kingdom of Bahmani dynasty in the south as Sultan Allau'd-din Khalji. He renamed Gulbarga, his capital...

Today in History – 10 August

1581 Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul. 1758 Marathas won the Atak. 1776 On this day in 1776, news reached London that the Americans had drafted the Declaration of...

Today in History – 9 August

1788 Gulam Kadir removed the eyes of Shah Alam 2nd, King of Delhi with a knife. 1892 Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of...

Today in History – 8 August

1869 George Davidson, a prominent astronomer and explorer, impressed Alaskan Native Americans with his ability to predict a total solar eclipse. 1905 Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was...

Today in History – 6 August

1787 In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention began debating the first complete draft of the proposed Constitution of the United States. 1890 At Auburn Prison in...

Today in History – 5 August

1604 John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, bapti was born. 1858 After several unsuccessful attempts, the first telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean was completed, a...

Today in History – 4 August

1753 Washington received highest Freemason rank. 1845 Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in...