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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
05/01/1867 Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna.
05/01/1879 Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
05/01/1886 May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.
05/01/1897 Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.
05/01/1902 Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives.
05/01/1908 Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.
05/01/1909 Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers.
05/01/1913 Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
05/01/1915 Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
05/01/1922 Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
05/01/1923 Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.
05/01/1926 Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
05/01/1927 Dr. Namwar Singh was born.
05/01/1940 Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
05/01/1946 Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India.
05/01/1947 Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
05/01/1948 Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
05/01/1958 Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer.
05/01/1960 Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
05/01/1964 Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
05/01/1966 Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
05/01/1972 All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
05/01/1973 All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.
05/01/1977 Janata Party was established.
05/01/1981 Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.
05/01/1983 Amravati University established.
05/01/1983 V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away.
05/01/1987 The Bofors Deal.
05/01/1992 Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
05/01/1992 C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.
05/01/1993 Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune.
05/01/1994 Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.
05/01/1994 Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'.
05/01/1995 60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
05/01/1995 SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
05/01/1996 Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.
05/01/1996 International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
05/01/1996 P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case.
05/01/1996 Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).
05/01/1997 Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
05/01/1997 Anand wins all three categories in Amber chess tournament in Monte Carlo.
05/01/1998 The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.
05/01/1998 India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
05/01/1999 India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
05/01/2000 Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1976Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died.
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
06/06/1961Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities.
08/07/1985Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia.
10/05/1991Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years.
08/05/1905Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born.
05/28/1883Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik.
12/01/1951Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
05/29/1933Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'.