08 OCTOBER
1932 Indian Air Force was established.
1936 Famous Hindi writer and novelist Premchand died.
1998 India became a member of the Flight Safety Foundation.
2004 Monsanto’s patent on Indian wheat revoked.
2005 Thousands died due to earthquake in Kashmir.
1926 Bollywood actor Rajkumar was born.
09 OCTOBER
1920 Aligarh’s Oriental College was converted into Aligarh Muslim University.
1942 Freedom fighter Bibi Amar Kaur hoisted the national flag at the Lahore Jail Gate. She was arrested and sent to Ambala Jail.
1949 The first governor of independent India, C. Rajagopalachari, officially inaugurated the territorial army.
1976 International direct dialing service started between Bombay (now Mumbai) and London.
2008 The central government formed a committee of experts to save oil from the mafia.
1945 Famous Indian sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was born.
2007 China accused India of violating the agreement.
10 OCTOBER
1756 The British army led by Governor General Robert Clive recaptured Calcutta.
1910 The first All India Hindi Conference was organized in Varanasi under the chairmanship of Madan Mohan Malaviya.
1906 Indian novelist RK Narayan was born.
1954 Famous Indian actress Rekha was born.
2011 India’s famous Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away.
1978 Rohini Khadilkar became the first woman to win the national chess competition.
1991 India won the team title of the World Carrom Competition.
1992 The second Hooghly Bridge ‘Vidyasagar Setu’ opened.
2014 Nobel Prize was announced to Kailash Satyarthi of India.
11 OCTOBER
1902 The veteran socialist leader Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born.
1916 Social worker Chandika Amritrao Deshmukh was born.
1942 Bollywood emperor and century great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
1987 India’s Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by destroying the LTTE’s occupation.
1737 An earthquake in Calcutta (now Kolkata) killed 3 lakh people, half the city was devastated by this natural disaster.
2001 Trinidad-born Indian-born British writer Vidyadhar Suraj Prasad Noypal was announced to be awarded the 2001 Nobel Literature Prize.
1930 Jawaharlal Nehru was released from Naini Central Jail.
2008 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off from Naogaon station and flagged off the first train to run in the valley of Kashmir.
12 OCTOBER
1967 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a fighter, fierce thinker and socialist politician of India’s freedom struggle died.
1968 Equatorial Guinea, a country located in Central Africa, gained independence from Spain and this day was declared the national day of this country.
2008 Sister Alphonsa of Kerala became the first female saint of India.
1888 First revolutionary and later Gandhiji’s follower Perrin Ben was born.
13 OCTOBER
1987 The evergreen actor, singer Kishore Kumar, bid the world an adieu.
1895 The first Test captain of India’s cricket team, C.K. Naidu was born.
1999 Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India for the third time.
2013 A stampede in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh killed 109 people.
2011 Instructions have been given to use the words of Urdu, Persian, general Hindi and English instead of the difficult words of Hindi used in offices.
2004 Famous Hindi film actress Nirupa Roy passed away.
1542 Mughal emperor Akbar was born in Amarkot, Sindh.
14 OCTOBER
1882 The University of Punjab was established in modern Pakistan.
1956 Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar accepted Buddhism in Nagpur with 3,85,000 followers.
1240 Razia Sultan, the first female ruler of India, died.
1643 Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah I of Delhi (India) was born.
1774 The First Continental Congress declared colonial rights in Philadelphia.
1953 The Estate Duty Act came into effect in India.
2008 The Reserve Bank of India announced the release of an additional 200 billion rupees to meet the needs of mutual funds.
2010 The ongoing 19th Commonwealth Games in the capital Delhi ended.
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