05 MAY

2006 Music director Naushad Ali, who is said to be the right mix of music and success, said goodbye to the world on this day.
1883 Surendra Nath Banerjee became the first journalist to go to jail.
1479 The third Sikh Guru, Guru Amar Das was born.
1888 Birth of the great revolutionary Triloknath Chakravarty.
1916 Former President Gyani Zail Singh was born.

06 MAY
1944 Gandhiji released from Aga Khan Palace in Pune.

1967 Zakir Hussain became the first Muslim President of India.
2010 Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted for the 26/11 attack in Mumbai, was sentenced to death.
1861 Motilal Nehru, a freedom fighter and politician, was born.
1964 Khajan Singh, one of the famous swimmers of India, was born.
1589 The great musician Mian Tansen died.
1946 Eminent jurist, prominent parliamentary leader and trusted aide of Mahatma Gandhi, Bhulabhai Desai died.

07 MAY

1861 Rabindranath Tagore was born into a prosperous family in Calcutta. Tagore is the first person in Asia to receive the Nobel Prize.
1907 The first electric tram car operated in Bombay.
1973 The foundation stone of the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh was laid at Itanagar.
1989 Diplomatic contact between Britain and Iran broke in 1989 after an Iranian fatwa against Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie.
2002 The International Religious Freedom Commission expressed serious concern over the violence in Gujarat.
1889 Renowned freedom fighter and founder of ‘Hindustani Sevadal’ N. s. Hardiker was born.
1880 The great Indian Sanskritist and scholar Pandit Pandurang Vaman Kane was born.

08 MAY
1933 Mahatma Gandhi kept 21 days fast against British rule.

1929 Birth of India’s famous Thumri singer Girija Devi.
1963 The centenary celebrations of the Indian Red Cross Society were celebrated.
1954 The central government included Chandranagar in the state of West Bengal.
1980 The World Health Organization announced the elimination of smallpox.
2000 69-year-old Lord Swarajpal of Indian origin was appointed the vice-chancellor of Britain’s fourth-largest university in Britain.
1895 Famous revolutionary and Gandhian activist of Orissa Gopabandhu Chaudhary was born.
1916 Swami Chinmayananda, the famous spiritual thinker of India and world-renowned scholar of Vedanta philosophy was born.
1915 India’s freedom fighter Amir Chand passed away.
1915 One of the revolutionaries who fought for India’s independence, Bhai Balmukund, died on that day.
1926 Famous historian Tapan Rai Chaudhary was born.

09 MAY

1540 King of Shishodia dynasty Maharana Pratap was born in Udaipur, Mewar, who struggled with Mughal Emperor Akbar for many years.
1866 Freedom fighter, philanthropist, thinker and reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale was also born on this day.
2010 India’s Vandana Shiva was selected for the Sydney Peace Prize for women’s empowerment and environmental protection in developing countries.
1653 The world-famous historical building and the Taj Mahal, one of the world’s wonders, was completed after 22 years of continuous work.
1866 Birth of great leader, social reformer and thinker Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
1874 The first horse-drawn tram car started in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1946 The first Satyagraha movement against the Portuguese rule started in Goa under the leadership of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia.
1986 The first person to reach Mount Everest, Himalaya, Tenzing Norgay died in 1986.
1998 Famous Indian Ghazal singer and actor Talat Mehmood died in 1998

10 MAY
1526 After victory in the first battle of Panipat, Babur entered Akbarabad (Agra), the capital of erstwhile India.

2002 India’s famous poet Kaifi Azmi passed away.
1993 Santosh Yadav became the first female climber to reach Everest, the world’s highest mountain peak twice.
1857 The first battle of freedom struggle started from the cantonment of Meerut.
1857 Indian fighters started a revolt in Delhi from the British East India Company.
1946 Jawaharlal Nehru was elected the leader of the Congress party in India.

11 MAY
1784 Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore.
1951 President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple.
1962 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected the President of India. He succeeded Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
1998 India announced three nuclear tests at Pokaran in Rajasthan.
2000 According to the population clock, India’s population reached one billion.
2007 The Bahujan Samaj Party secured a majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and party leader Mayawati took over as the chief minister.
1960 The first contraceptive pill market was made available in 1960.
2005 In 2005, the World Bank appointed a neutral expert on the Baglihar project to settle Indo-Pak differences.
2011 India and Pakistan agreed to start a bus service between Lahore and Amritsar.
1918 India’s famous classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was born in 1918.
2002 Princess of Bhopal politics and India’s first female pilot Abida Sultan died in 2002.