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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
06/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
01/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
04/24/1993Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
04/17/1975Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.
01/25/1914Gandhi reaches agreement with South African Union govt. on treatment of Indian nationals at South Africa.
03/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
08/07/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
10/03/1996National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.
05/27/1990Om Prakash Chautala, former CM, wins Mehem by-election.