15 OCTOBER

1931       11th President of India A.K. P.J. Abdul Kalam was born.

1932       The Tata Company airplane took its first flight. After the acquisition by the Government of India, this company was called Air India.

1997       Arundhati Roy was selected for Britain’s most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel ‘The God of Small Things’.

1949       The state of Tripura was included in India.

1988       Ujwala Patil became the first Asian woman to travel the world through the sea.

1998       India’s Fatima B was awarded the United Nations Award for the Eradication of Poverty.

1686       The Mughal ruler Aurangzeb signed a peace deal with Bijapur.

16 OCTOBER

1861       The sale of federal postage stamps began.

1948       India’s famous actress and Bharatanatyam dancer Hema Malini was born.

1968       Bharatvanshi Hargovind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for medicine and physiology.

1959       National Women’s Education Council established.

1978       Indian cricketer Kapil Dev made his Test debut against Faisalabad against Pakistan.

2002       A gold and a bronze medalist at the 14th Asian Games took Sunita Rani of India to a medal after failing in the dopint test.

2005       G-20 countries agree to reform the World Bank and IMF.

17 OCTOBER

1979       Mother Teresa was given the Nobel Peace Prize.

1605       Mughal ruler Akbar died.

1817       Syed Ahmed Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University, was born in Delhi.

1870       The Port of Calcutta was brought under the management of a constitutional body.

1940       Mahatma Gandhi declared private Satyagraha.

2009       The Maldives in the Indian Ocean held the world’s first cabinet meeting underwater and tried to warn all countries of the danger of global warming.

1877       Sister Euprasia, the Indian Christian female saint, was born.

18 OCTOBER

1980       The first Himalaya Car Rally was flagged off from Brabourne Stadium in Bombay (now Mumbai).

2004       The notorious Chandan smuggler Veerappan was killed.

1998       India and Pakistan agree to stop nuclear risk.

2008       Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati returned 189.25 crore acres of land to the Railway Ministry for the railway coach factory in Rae Bareli.

1950       Famous actor of Hindi films Om Puri was born.

1972       Trial of the first multipurpose chopper SA315 in Bangalore.

19 OCTOBER

1950       Mother Teresa founded the Missionary of Charities in Kolkata. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who held Indian citizenship.

1970       The first MiG-21 aircraft manufactured in India was inducted into the Indian Air Force. It is a super sonic fighter jet which was built by the Soviet Union.

1910       Astronomer and Nobel Prize winner Subramanian Chandrasekhar was born.

1920       Pandurang Shastri Athalve, the founder of the Swadhyay family, was born in Maharashtra.

20 OCTOBER

1568       The Mughal emperor Akbar attacked Chittorgarh.

1774       Calcutta (now Kolkata) was made the capital of India.

1961       Birja Sankar Guha, physical anthropologist and first director of the Anthropological Survey of India, died in Ghatshila Bihar.

1978       India’s aggressive batsman Virender Sehwag was born. He scored 8,586 runs in 104 Tests and 8,273 runs in 251 ODIs in his career.

1947       The first war took place between India and Pakistan.

1962       China attacked India and attempted to sneak into the Indian border via Arunachal Pradesh.

1964       One of the revolutionaries of India, HC Dasappa died.

1991       A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Uttarkashi, India killed more than 1000 people.

21 OCTOBER

1296       Alauddin Khilji took the throne of Delhi.

1934       Jayaprakash Narayan formed the Congress Socialist Party.

1951       Bharatiya Jana Sangh was established.

2012       Yash Chopra, who is called the romance king of Bollywood, passed away.

1931       Famous Hindi film actor Shammi Kapoor was born.

1934       Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose founded Azad Hind Fauj in Singapore.

1939       Famous Hindi films actress Helen was born.

1954       India and France signed an agreement to include Pondicherry, Karaikal, and Mahe in the Indian Republic. The agreement entered into force from 1 November.

2007       Indian-American Bobby Jindal won the post of Governor of the Louisiana Province of America.

2008       Karwan-e-Tijas started after 61 years between India and Pakistan.

1830       Nain Singh Rawat was the first Indian to discover the Himalayan region.

1887       Krishna Singh the first Chief Minister of Bihar.