11 MARCH 1399 Taimur Lung crossed the Indus River in 1399, after committing a rampage in North India including Delhi. 1999 Infosys Company is the first Indian company to appear on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ) International […]
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou. March 4 March 4, 1681 – King Charles II of England granted a huge […]
04 MARCH 1879 Bethune College of Calcutta was established in 1879. 1906 Hakim Abdul Majeed started the Hamdard dispensary in Delhi in 1906. 1924 In 1924, Shyam Lal Gupta composed the song Raising the Flag. […]
25 February 1894: Meher Baba, Indian mystic, was born 1948 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor, was born 1974 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress, was born 1981 – Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor, was born 2008 – […]
18 FEBRUARY 2007 68 people were killed in the Samjhauta Express going from Delhi to Lahore. 1905 Shyamji Krishnavarma founded the India Home Rule Society in London in 1905. 1911 The world’s first official airmail […]
11 FEBRUARY 1901 Indian revolutionary Damodar Swaroop Seth was born. 1856 The East India Company took over Awadh. 1968 Jana Sangh founder, writer, journalist Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay was killed in Mughalsarai. 1933 The publication […]
04 FEBRUARY 1628 Shah Jahan was declared Emperor of Agra. 1881 The first issue of the daily newspaper ‘Kesari’ appeared in the editing of Lokmanya Tilak. 1938 Birju Maharaj, the famous Kathak artist of the […]
28 JANUARY 2009 Calcutta Medical College started in West Bengal. 1928 Raja Ramanna, the leading physicist of the country, was born. 1930 The classical singer Pandit Jasraj, who belonged to Mewati Gharana, was born. 1999 […]
In India, five days are declared as Martyrs Day in honour of those who laid down their lives for the nation. Of these, the first falls on January 30, the day when Mahatma Gandhi was […]
If there is one god in the Hindu pantheon who is a marker of auspicious beginnings, it is Lord Ganesha. The elephant-headed god is worshipped at the beginning of seasons and rituals for this reason. […]
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ’s life is a story of struggle. It is the story of a young dreamer that tells the saga of consciousness, struggle and success in every eye; one who has the […]
21 JANUARY 2008 India successfully launched a spy satellite of Israel and installed it in Polar Arbit. 1958 Copyright Act enacted. 1945 Renowned lawyer and freedom fighter Ras Bihari Bose died. 22 JANUARY 1965 Steel […]
The national holiday, which takes place on the third Monday of January each year, serves as a day of remembrance for Martin Luther King, who was killed in Memphis in 1968. This year, it will […]
14 JANUARY 1741: Third war of Panipat started between Marathas and Afghans. 1964 Test bowler Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni set a record for throwing 21 maiden overs. 1977 Narayan Karthikeyan, the first Indian to fill the […]
07 JANUARY 1967 Irrfan Khan, who rejuvenated the characters of Hindi cinema world, stepped into the world. 1980 After less than three years of the overthrow of power due to emergency, the people of India […]
“Vivekananda, original name Narendranath Datta, Datta also spelled Dutt, (born January 12, 1863, Calcutta [now Kolkata]—died July 4, 1902, near Calcutta), Hindu spiritual leader and reformer in India who attempted to combine Indian spirituality with […]
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”-Mahatma Gandhi January 7 January 7, 1714 – A patent was issued for the first typewriter […]
31 DECEMBER 1925 Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla, born for satire, was born. 1984 Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister and Congress President for the first time. 1802 The Maratha ruler Peshwa Bajirao II came under the […]
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”― James Baldwin […]
24 DECEMBER 1894 First medical conference organized in Calcutta. 1889 The first amusement park in India was opened in Essel World Mumbai. 2000 Vishwanathan Anand became world chess champion. 2002 The Delhi Metro was launched […]
“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.” –Winston Churchill December 17, 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicated King Henry VIII after he had declared himself supreme head of the Church […]
As the Sikh community across the world remembers the sacrifice of the ‘Chaar Sahibzade’, Parivar Vichora Gurdwara deserves a special mention, as this is where the family of Guru Gobind Singh’s family got separated. Unfortunately, […]
17 DECEMBER 1645 Nur Jahan Begum, wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, died. 1928 In order to avenge the murder of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev shot and killed assistant superintendent of […]
10 DECEMBER 1878 The freedom fighter leader G. Rajagopalachari was born. 1878 Birth of Muhammad Ali Johar, one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia in Rampur. 2001 Dada Muni, one of the stalwarts of […]
03 DECEMBER 1844 The first President of the country Dr. Rajendra Prasad was born. 1751 Battle of Arnie in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led army under Robert Clive defeats a very […]
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