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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
09/13/1500 Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India.
09/13/1893 Mama Parmanand, one of the founders of 'Prarthana Samaj', passed away.
09/13/1901 Jamshedji Bomanji H. Wadia, director and producer, was born. His first film was 'Toofan Mail' (1932).
09/13/1906 Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh).
09/13/1928 Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
09/13/1948 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel took police action on Hyderabad for anti national policy's of Nijam of Hyderabad and Rijvi Rajakar's.
09/13/1965 Pakistanis bomb Bombay.
09/13/1984 Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement.
09/13/1990 An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
09/13/1991 Churchil Alemao, former Goa CM, who was wanted under COFEPOSA, surrenders to the police in Panaji.
09/13/1992 Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission.
09/13/1996 Lok Pal Bill introduced in Lok Sabha.
09/13/1997 Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
09/13/1997 India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu.
09/13/1998 Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand is appointed Chief Justice of India.
09/13/2000 Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
06/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
08/29/1998Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
11/15/2000India cancels cricket series with Pakistan in January next on account of Islamabad's ''hostile propaganda''.
08/06/1965Indian troops invade Pakistan.
07/06/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.
04/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
09/11/1888Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain.
11/21/1993R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries.
10/01/1886Baluchisthan became a part of India.
08/08/1942'Britishers Quit India', this resolution was announced in public at Bombay Congress Session. This resolution was passed by All Indian National Congress Committee and Gandhiji gave the 'Do or Die' call for Independence struggle.