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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 7/4/1729 |
Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 7/4/1760 |
Meeran, Mir Jaffer's son, accidently died on the banks of Ganga near Patna due to lightning. |
| 7/4/1789 |
British East India Company signed a treaty with the Nizam of Hydrabad and Peshwa of Pune against Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on the understanding that a cavalry of 10,000 would attack Tipu's territory and the conquered area would be divided amongst the three. |
| 7/4/1897 |
Nanaksingh, famous Punjabi novelist, was born in a Hindu family in village Chak Hamid, Tehsil Dadan Khan, District Jhelum (now in Pakistan). |
| 7/4/1897 |
Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 7/4/1899 |
Vishnuprasad Ranchhoddas Trivedi, famous critic in Gujrati, educationist and author, was born at Umreth, Gujarat . |
| 7/4/1900 |
Swami Shivanand Saraswati, religious leader, was born. |
| 7/4/1902 |
Swami Vivekanand (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian religious leader and social reformer, died at Memorial Rock, KanyaKumari. His brilliant career came to a sudden end only at the age of 39. |
| 7/4/1912 |
Pandit Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born. |
| 7/4/1914 |
Savlaram Ravji Patil (P. Savlaram), film lyrisist and story writer, was born. |
| 7/4/1922 |
Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 7/4/1933 |
Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment. |
| 7/4/1985 |
Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi. |
| 7/4/1986 |
Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston. |
| 7/4/1989 |
Capt. W. A. Sangma appointed Governor of Mizoram and A. A. Rahim Governor of Meghalaya. |
| 7/4/1989 |
Union Deputy Ministers were promoted to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 7/4/1991 |
Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 7/4/1992 |
Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 7/4/1994 |
Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died. |
| 7/4/1995 |
Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi. |
| 7/4/1997 |
Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996. |
| 7/4/1997 |
Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls. |
| 7/4/1999 |
Over 500 children of Kargil migrants take out a procession to Batalik in a show of solidarity with the Indian army. |
| 7/4/1999 |
S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode. |
| 7/4/1999 |
The Indian Army recaptured Tiger Hill after a 11 hour assault, and hoisted the tricolour atop the 16,500 ft. peak. |
| 7/4/2000 |
The trial of the Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in the disproportionate assets case begins. |
| 7/4/2000 |
Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/30/1826 | The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla. |
| 7/1/1852 | For the first time in Asia, Postal Stamp for the general public was issued by Sindh Province in Karachi. |
| 9/29/1964 | 1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst. |
| 3/29/1914 | Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh. |
| 4/5/1979 | First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 11/2/1774 | Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India. |
| 5/5/1942 | Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 1/11/1986 | The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary. |
| 7/17/2000 | 55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
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