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  • India in history this Week- April 22, 2022, to April 28, 2022

    22 APRIL

    1921  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from the Indian Civil Service in 1921.

    1970  Earth Day was celebrated for the first time in the world.

    1958  Admiral RD Katari became the first chief in the Indian Navy in 1958.

    1974  Indian writer Chetan Bhagat was born in 1974.

    1969  The famous revolutionary of ‘Kakori Kand’ Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee passed away in 1969.

    23 APRIL

    1858  Babu Veer Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur, the hero of India’s first freedom struggle passed away.

    1987  The Supreme Court ruled the widows share in the property.

    1992  Satyajit Rai, who was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the famous Indian filmmaker-director, died in 1992.

    1995  Celebration of World Book Day began.

    1984  Scientists found out about the AIDS virus in 1984.

    2005  The first video was uploaded to YouTube in 2005.

    2013  West Indies explosive batsman Chris Gayle scored the fastest century in cricket history in 2013 in just 30 balls.

    1504  Birth of the second Sikh religious leader Angad in 1504.

    24 APRIL

    1973  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the country’s greatest cricketer who was considered among the best batsmen in the world in the history of cricket, was born on this day.

    1815  The Gorkha Regiment, considered the first and bravest battalion of the Indian Army, has completed 200 years today.

    1815  The foundation stone of Gorkha Regime was laid in 1815 in Himachal.

    1972  The famous Indian painter Gemini Roy died on this day in 1972. He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1955.

    25 APRIL

    1968  Hindustani classical music singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan died.

    1982  Doordarshan aired a colorful picture for the first time in 1982.

    1933  On this day, the terrorists who hijacked the Air Indian plane were killed.

    2000  On this day, the mastermind of Kandahar Hijack, Bilal alias Lalu Mian, was arrested from West Bengal.

    2007  The new campus of the Virala Institute of Technology and Sciences opened in 2007 in Panama (Bahrain).

    2010  In 2010, the Indian Navy began the process of procuring new Light Utility Helicopters (LUHs) in place of the old Chetak helicopters.

    1969  India’s famous football player IM Vijayan was born in 1969.

    26 APRIL

    1920  The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam passed away.

    1975  Sikkim became the 22nd state of India.

    1847  The Bombay Gadget newspaper was first published in 1841 on silk cloth.

    1929  The first non-stop flight from England to India was completed in 1929.

    1980  Situated in 1980, the Center for Positional Astronomy was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

    1990  In 1990, VRP Menon set a world record by performing disco dance for 463 hours in a row.

    1993  A 1993 Boeing-737 plane crash in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, killed about 60 people.

    2006  India and Uzbekistan signed 6 treaties in 2006.

    2008  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country in 2008.

    2010  The Bihar government decided in 2010 to brand Bihar’s famous Chiniya banana as ‘Ganga Banana’.

    1864  Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi, a disciple of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and one of the five prominent leaders of the Arya Samaj, was born.

    27 APRIL

    1526  The Mughal ruler Babur defeated the Sultan of Delhi and became the new emperor.

    1748  The Mughal ruler Muhammad Shah died in Delhi.

    1878  The University of Calcutta gave the first approval for eligibility for women in the field of university education.

    1960  Establishment of National Defense College in New Delhi.

    1912  The great actress Zohra Sehgal was born.

    28 APRIL

    1916  BG Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League in 1916.

    1932  The development of yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced in 1932.

    2003  Employee Safety and Health Day was observed around the world in 2003.

    2008  The Indian Space Research Organization created a new history in 2008 with PSLV-C9.

    1791  Hari Singh Nalwa, the Chief of Army Staff of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was born.

  • India in history this Week-March 18, 2022, to March 24, 2022

    18 MARCH

    1910  On 18 March 1910, Gopal Krishna Gokhale proposed before the British Legislative Council for the provision of free and compulsory primary education.

    1944  On 18 March 1944, Azad Hind Fauj of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose crossed the border of Burma.

    1922  The British court sentenced Mahatma Gandhi to six years in the sedition case in 1922 after the Civil Disobedience Movement.

    2006  In 2006, the United Nations approved the proposal to set up a ‘Human Rights Council’.

    2009  The Union Cabinet recommended imposition of President’s rule in Meghalaya in 2009.

    19 MARCH

    1944  The Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the national flag in 1944 in Northeast India.

    1972  Signed the Friendship Agreement between India and Bangladesh in 1972.

    1998  Atal Bihari Vajpayee became Prime Minister for the second time in 1998.

    1848  On this day in 1848, Shatapatra Kaulam was started in a newspaper called Prabhakar.

    1935  In 1935, on this day, 20,000 Muslims were fired upon by British Troops.

    1954  On this day in 1954, the first helicopter was operated in the country.

    20 MARCH

    2014  Khushwant Singh, a journalist, writer and historian who was recognized for his impeccable comment, died.

    1351  Muhammad Tughlaq Shah Do died in 1351.

    1921  Doctor Alexander was born in 1921.

    1970  The Satyashodhak Samaj was formed in 1970.

    1992  The great creator Satyajit Rai received the Bharat Ratna.

    1987  The Food and Drug Administration approved the anti-AIDS drug AZT. It was the first drug approved by the US government to treat AIDS.

    21 MARCH

    1836  First public library started in Kolkata, now its name is National Library.

    1858  Rebel soldiers of Lucknow surrender.

    1887  Establishment of Prathana Samaj in Bombay.

    1916  Shehnaist Ustad Bismillah Khan was born.

    1791  British army defeated Tipu Sultan of the then Bangalore.

    1975  The then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared Emergency under Section 352 at the request of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975.

    22 MARCH

    1882  The deadly infectious disease ‘TB’ was identified.

    1890  Ramachandra Chatterjee became the first person to get off parachute in 1890.

    1972  Mrs. Indira Gandhi resigned as Prime Minister in 1977.

    1964  First rally of old cars held in Kolkata.

    1957  A national calendar based on suspicion was adopted.

    1993  World Water Day is celebrated.

    1969  Inauguration of Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited.

    23 MARCH

    1910  Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia was born in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh.

    1931  During the 1931 Indian independence movement, revolutionary Bhagat Singh and his associates Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged on this day.

    1986  1986 First company of women was trained in Central Reserve Police Force.

    1940  The All India Muslim League demanded a separate country for Muslims in 1940.

    24 MARCH

    1855  Long-distance telegraph message was sent from Calcutta to Agra for the first time.

    1977  Morarji Desai became the fourth Prime Minister of India in 1977 and formed the first non-Congress government at the Center.

    1990  The Indian Army left Sri Lanka and returned home in 1990.

    1999  PN Bhagwati (India) was elected vice-president of the United Nations Human Rights Committee for a second consecutive term in 1999.

    1855  British Cabinet Mission reaches India.