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.