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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
05/30/1826 The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
05/30/1867 Maulana Mohammad Kasim Nanantavi established the famous Islamic educational centre 'Dar- Ul -Ulum' in Devkampa, Uttar Pradesh.
05/30/1887 The 7th Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment was raised as 37 DOGRAS by Lt. Col V. Rivas at Sialkot.
05/30/1895 Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, great historian in Goa, was born.
05/30/1915 Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service and Diplomat, was born at Delhi.
05/30/1919 Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
05/30/1950 Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
05/30/1952 S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955.
05/30/1955 Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away.
05/30/1962 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
05/30/1977 Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons.
05/30/1985 Earthquake in Srinagar.
05/30/1987 Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
05/30/1991 Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
05/30/1995 Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.
05/30/1999 India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
09/10/1920Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.
07/23/1976Hari Chand at Montreal sets record for 10,000m in 28.48.72.
08/07/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
08/05/1969Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad, cricketer (consistent Indian Test pace bowler 1996-), was born in Bangalore.
06/20/1897Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born.
05/15/1998The Indian Army at Chandilora (Tangmey) captured 15 kg charas, 400 gm dust of charas and 12 kg leaves of charas.
03/24/1946British Cabinet Mission came to India presided by Lord Pethick Lawrence.
04/20/1888246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
05/08/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.