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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
08/09/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
10/02/1979Operation (Milk) Flood-II launched.
02/25/1993Kranti Renadev, a naxalite under trial in Andhra, freed.
04/04/1996Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates.
07/10/1977The Planning Commission decides to introduce Rolling Plan concept.
04/20/1991Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away.
03/03/1967India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
07/23/1996India's admission to Asian Regional Forum was endorsed by Foreign Ministers of the group at Jakarta.
01/12/1924Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune.