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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
09/16/1913 Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
09/16/1916 M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born.
09/16/1916 D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
09/16/1929 Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari).
09/16/1931 Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
09/16/1931 Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
09/16/1931 R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
09/16/1932 Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
09/16/1954 The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
09/16/1955 Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
09/16/1967 Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
09/16/1973 Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
09/16/1977 Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay.
09/16/1990 Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
09/16/1995 Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
09/16/1996 First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
09/16/1996 J & K second phase poll for 34 seats.
09/16/1997 General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
09/16/1997 Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
09/16/2000 Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
09/16/2000 In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
01/14/1851Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart.
10/25/1990JD and BJP withdrew support to Rajasthan and Gujarat governments respectively.
06/13/1996Govt. extends for another 2 years the ban imposed on LTTE w.e.f. 14/6/1996 under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
09/14/1893Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started.
02/13/1856East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom.
09/15/1999Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead.
09/27/1856Pratap Narayan Mishra, Hindi writer, was born. He is one of the pioneers of mordern Hindi language.
11/02/1990Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.
08/25/199710,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265.
09/21/1948Formation of Press Trust of India (PTI) announced under an agreement signed between Reuters and Indian and Eastern Newspapers Society.