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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 5/5/1818 |
Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
| 5/5/1903 |
Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 5/5/1903 |
Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 5/5/1906 |
Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
| 5/5/1916 |
Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
| 5/5/1929 |
Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay. |
| 5/5/1930 |
Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
| 5/5/1932 |
Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away. |
| 5/5/1942 |
Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 5/5/1944 |
Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
| 5/5/1946 |
Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
| 5/5/1947 |
Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 5/5/1955 |
Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce. |
| 5/5/1966 |
Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 5/5/1971 |
India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
| 5/5/1972 |
Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
| 5/5/1977 |
Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
| 5/5/1983 |
Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away. |
| 5/5/1986 |
Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha. |
| 5/5/1989 |
Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 5/5/1992 |
Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
| 5/5/1993 |
Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], famous Indian guru, passed away at 73 yrs. |
| 5/5/1994 |
Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader. |
| 5/5/1998 |
Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
| 5/5/2000 |
Supreme Court permits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha (petitioner) to have herself and the others examined as ''defence witnesses'' in connection with the trial of the 'Colour TV scam case'. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/16/1992 | The Parliament adopts resolution condemning the demolition of the mosque at Ayodhya and centre appoints a one-man judicial commission to enquire into the Ayodhya incidents. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
| 1/14/1938 | Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta. |
| 8/15/1950 | Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives. |
| 9/9/1997 | G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'. |
| 4/16/1997 | Anupama Gokhale wins National women's `A' chess in Calcutta. |
| 5/26/1946 | Gandhiji considers 'Plan' the best document produced by British Government under the circumstances. |
| 4/13/1919 | Jallianwala Baug massacre. The great Indian tragedy occured in Amritsar which claimed 389 lives and wounded 1,516 activitists fighting for Indian independence. Early in 1919, the Rowlatt Act (Black Act) was passed. This authorized the Government to imprison any person without any trial and conviction in a court of law. This furious act was under the guidence of cruel Brigedier General R. E. H. Dyer and his 50 men troop. Michael O' Dwyer was then the Governor of Punjab who naturally defended the action. This day is observed as Jallianwala Baug Day. |
| 7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
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