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 Orrisa state.

1859

S. Kasturiranga Iyengar, the owner of Hindu newspaper, was born.

1976

Baichung Bhutia, the Indian Football player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim.

1950

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the ‘Iron Man’ and Bharat Ratna awardee, died.

1992

BJP Governments of Sunderlal Patwa (MP), Shanta Kumar (HP) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) dismissed.

43 BC

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician was assassinated in Formiae

1782

Hyder Ali, the warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur.

1825

First Steam Engine Ship “Enterprise” reached Calcutta Port.

1856

First Hindu widow married officially.

1909

Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermosetting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry

1941

Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

1972

Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

1979

First International Children’s Films Festival was held in Bombay.

1992

Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shot and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.

1993

BJP leaders Advani, Joshi and Kalyan Singh arrested in connection with Ayodhya demolition case.

1995

Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2C), third indigenous satellite in the INSAT-2 series, launched. This has additional capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. This is still in service. It was launched by Ariane launch vehicle at French Guyana.

1998

A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan’s decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.

1657

Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India.

1865

13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery

1943

The Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) was attacked in a daylight aerial bombardment for the first time, as Japanese bombers made a brief raid. There had been seven previous bombings of Calcutta, but all had taken place at night. The British Indian government announced that 167 civilians and one soldier were killed.

1950

Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India.

1950

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.

1951

Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away.

1990

With the induction of 60 ministers, the Bihar Cabinet becomes the largest ever cabinet in India with a total of 71 ministers.

1991

The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India.

1992

V. P. Singh and hundreds arrested in Barabanki on the way to Ayodhya.

1994

V. P.Singh, former PM, resigns from the Parliament.

1998

Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela

1999

India’s Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.

1534

Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad

1791

Britain’s Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published

1796

Bajirao became the second Peshwa.

1829

Britain abolished Sati Pratha in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre)

1872

Ship the Mary Celeste is discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean

1901

Walt Disney born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

1924

Gateway of India was inaugurated by Lord Reading.

1982

Asian Games at Delhi concluded.

1790

Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta.

1882

Nandalal Bose, the great Indian painter, and master, was born in Bengal.

1884

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, first President of India, was born in Jeradei village of Bihar.

1889

Khudiram Bose, famous revolutionary and freedom fighter of Muzaffarpur Bomb Case, was born at Habibpur village, West Bengal.

1955

In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union.

1970

Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar.

1991

Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing, several airfields, IN Ships ‘Rajput’ and ‘Akshay’ were leaving Vishakapatnam harbor when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine’s presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard. The Pakistani submarine ‘Ghazi’ (a Tench-class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.

India recognizes Bangladesh. Indian army marches into Bangladesh and joins hands with Mukti Bahini. Pakistani Army in Bangladesh surrenders to the Indian Commander.

Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.

Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.

Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared.

1979

Dhyan Chand, the famous master of Hockey and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.

1984

3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as “the Bhopal Gas Tragedy”, the biggest industrial disaster that occurred.

1991

Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time.