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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/06/1529 |
Babur Shah, Mughal Emperior, defeated Afghan Nawab Nasrat Shah, king of Bengal, on the banks of the Gand and the Ghaghra river. |
| 05/06/1589 |
Mian Tansen, a prominent figure of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music and famous singer of Akbar's court, died at Gwalior. Tansen is remembered for his epic Dhrupad compositions, creating several new ragas, as well as for writing two classic books on music Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara. |
| 05/06/1680 |
Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned. |
| 05/06/1775 |
Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested. |
| 05/06/1861 |
Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra. |
| 05/06/1910 |
Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 05/06/1922 |
Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 05/06/1944 |
Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune. |
| 05/06/1946 |
Bhulabhai Desai, great politician, passed away. |
| 05/06/1948 |
India rejected the Security Council's plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir. |
| 05/06/1952 |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad re-elected the President of India ""Rashtrapati"" after the first Presidential election held under the Indian constitution. |
| 05/06/1952 |
Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 05/06/1967 |
Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President. |
| 05/06/1971 |
D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77). |
| 05/06/1971 |
India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
| 05/06/1993 |
Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled. |
| 05/06/1997 |
12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi. |
| 05/06/2000 |
Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000. |
| 05/06/2000 |
Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1958 | Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival. |
| 09/06/1657 | Shahjahan fell ill. His four sons Dara Shikoh, Suja, Aurangzeb and Murad advanced towards Delhi to capture the throne. |
| 10/15/1686 | Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era. |
| 01/07/1994 | The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year. |
| 07/16/1996 | Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence. |
| 07/04/1897 | Nanaksingh, famous Punjabi novelist, was born in a Hindu family in village Chak Hamid, Tehsil Dadan Khan, District Jhelum (now in Pakistan). |
| 04/07/1997 | Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called 'Growth Quadrangle'. |
| 01/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 03/01/1993 | India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'. |
| 09/05/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
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