08 OCTOBER

1932  Indian Air Force was established.

1936  Famous Hindi writer and novelist Premchand died.

1998  India became a member of the Flight Safety Foundation.

2004  Monsanto’s patent on Indian wheat revoked.

2005  Thousands died due to earthquake in Kashmir.

1926  Bollywood actor Rajkumar was born.

09 OCTOBER

1920  Aligarh’s Oriental College was converted into Aligarh Muslim University.

1942  Freedom fighter Bibi Amar Kaur hoisted the national flag at the Lahore Jail Gate. She was arrested and sent to Ambala Jail.

1949  The first governor of independent India, C. Rajagopalachari, officially inaugurated the territorial army.

1976  International direct dialing service started between Bombay (now Mumbai) and London.

2008  The central government formed a committee of experts to save oil from the mafia.

1945  Famous Indian sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was born.

2007  China accused India of violating the agreement.

10 OCTOBER

1756  The British army led by Governor General Robert Clive recaptured Calcutta.

1910  The first All India Hindi Conference was organized in Varanasi under the chairmanship of Madan Mohan Malaviya.

1906  Indian novelist RK Narayan was born.

1954  Famous Indian actress Rekha was born.

2011  India’s famous Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away.

1978  Rohini Khadilkar became the first woman to win the national chess competition.

1991  India won the team title of the World Carrom Competition.

1992  The second Hooghly Bridge ‘Vidyasagar Setu’ opened.

2014  Nobel Prize was announced to Kailash Satyarthi of India.

11 OCTOBER

1902  The veteran socialist leader Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born.

1916  Social worker Chandika Amritrao Deshmukh was born.

1942  Bollywood emperor and century great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh.

1987  India’s Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by destroying the LTTE’s occupation.

1737  An earthquake in Calcutta (now Kolkata) killed 3 lakh people, half the city was devastated by this natural disaster.

2001  Trinidad-born Indian-born British writer Vidyadhar Suraj Prasad Noypal was announced to be awarded the 2001 Nobel Literature Prize.

1930  Jawaharlal Nehru was released from Naini Central Jail.

2008  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off from Naogaon station and flagged off the first train to run in the valley of Kashmir.

12 OCTOBER

1967  Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a fighter, fierce thinker and socialist politician of India’s freedom struggle died.

1968  Equatorial Guinea, a country located in Central Africa, gained independence from Spain and this day was declared the national day of this country.

2008  Sister Alphonsa of Kerala became the first female saint of India.

1888  First revolutionary and later Gandhiji’s follower Perrin Ben was born.

13 OCTOBER

1987  The evergreen actor, singer Kishore Kumar, bid the world an adieu.

1895  The first Test captain of India’s cricket team, C.K. Naidu was born.

1999  Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India for the third time.

2013  A stampede in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh killed 109 people.

2011  Instructions have been given to use the words of Urdu, Persian, general Hindi and English instead of the difficult words of Hindi used in offices.

2004  Famous Hindi film actress Nirupa Roy passed away.

1542  Mughal emperor Akbar was born in Amarkot, Sindh.

14 OCTOBER

1882  The University of Punjab was established in modern Pakistan.

1956  Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar accepted Buddhism in Nagpur with 3,85,000 followers.

1240  Razia Sultan, the first female ruler of India, died.

1643  Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I of Delhi (India) was born.

1774  The First Continental Congress declared colonial rights in Philadelphia.

1953  The Estate Duty Act came into effect in India.

2008  The Reserve Bank of India announced the release of an additional 200 billion rupees to meet the needs of mutual funds.

2010  The ongoing 19th Commonwealth Games in the capital Delhi ended.