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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
05/02/1769 Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born.
05/02/1907 Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
05/02/1908 Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
05/02/1921 Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''.
05/02/1922 Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
05/02/1926 Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
05/02/1930 Riots break out in Amritsar.
05/02/1953 Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
05/02/1953 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
05/02/1954 Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism.
05/02/1968 Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act.
05/02/1974 700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
05/02/1977 C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77).
05/02/1981 Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away.
05/02/1982 Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut.
05/02/1985 Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away.
05/02/1992 President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges.
05/02/1996 Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
05/02/1996 General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories.
05/02/1998 The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
01/04/1966ndo-Pak Summit, the peace talk between Pakistan and Indian leaders, started at Tashkent. The prominent personalities were Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gen. Ayub Khan.
05/01/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
03/05/1997Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka.
04/01/1941Ajit Laxman Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & capt and Team Manager), was born in Bombay. He has received the Arjun Award (1967) and Padmashree (1972).
09/08/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
05/09/1753Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi.
06/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
08/15/1990Uttar Maharashtra University was established.
06/11/1997I.K. Gujral, PM, asserts that India had not deployed the `Prithvi' ballistic missile anywhere in the country or on the border.
02/23/19905-member Ministry headed by R. K. Ranbir Singh in Manipur elected.