22 OCTOBER

1680       Rana Raj Singh of Mewar passed away.

1796       Death of Rana Raj Singh of Mewar.

1962       India‘s largest multipurpose river valley project ‘Bhakra Nangal’ dedicated to the nation

2008       Chandrayaan-1 was successfully launched from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.

1879       The first sedition case under British rule was against the great revolutionary Basudev Balwani Phadke.

2016       India won the Kabaddi World Cup.

1933       The elder brother of Sardar Patel and the famous freedom fighter Vitthalbhai Patel died.

1893       Dalip Singh, the youngest son of Maharaj Ranjit Singh of Punjab, died.

23 OCTOBER

1623       The famous poet Tulsidas died.

1764       Mir Qasim was defeated in the battle of Buxar.

1934       Mahatma Gandhi resigned as the leader of the Indian National Congress.

1943       Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose founded the ‘Rani Brigade of Jhansi’ of Azad Hind Fauj in Singapore.

2003       India and Bulgaria signed the Extradition Treaty.

1883       Mirza Ismail, Assistant Secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore was born.

1957       Sunil Mittal, an Indian industrialist, social worker and chairman of India’s largest telecom company Airtel was born.

24 OCTOBER

1605       The Mughal ruler Jahangir ascended the throne in Agra.

1914       Freedom fighter and philanthropist Laxmi Sehgal was born.

1991       Famous Hindi writer Ismat Chugatai passed away.

1851       First telegraph line started between Calcutta and Diamond Harbor.

1579       Jusuit pastor SJ Thomas was the first Englishman to visit India. He arrived in Goa by Portuguese boat.

1975       An ordinance was brought to end the bonded labor system and came into effect from the next day.

1982       Sudha Madhavan became the first Indian female athlete to run in a marathon.

1984       First underground metro train started between Esplanad and Bhawanipur in Kolkata.

2013       Renowned playback singer Manna Dey of Hindi and Bengali films in Indian cinema world passed away. In 2005, the Government of India honored him with the Padma Bhushan in the field of art.

25 OCTOBER

1924       The British arrested Subhash Chandra Bose and sent him to jail for two years.

2005       Hindi writer Nirmal Verma passed away.

1951       The first general election began in India.

1964       The first indigenous tank ‘Vijayanta’ was built at the Avadi factory.

1995       The then Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao addressed the 50th anniversary session of the United Nations.

1955       For the first time, a company called Microwave Oven was started by Tappan Oven for domestic use.

26 OCTOBER

1947       After the partition of India and Pakistan, after the attack from Pakistan, the Hindu king of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir decided to go with India on this day.

1934       All India Rural Industries Association was established under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi.

1947       Raja Hari Singh agreed to merge Jammu and Kashmir with India.

1969       The first astronauts to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, came to Mumbai.

1775       Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of the Mughals was born in India.

1890       Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, who participated in the freedom struggle, was born.

1943       The cholera epidemic in Calcutta (erstwhile Kolkata) killed 2155 people in the third week of October.

1962       After the Chinese attack on India, the then President declared Emergency for the first time.

1999       The Supreme Court of India fixed life imprisonment for 14 years.

27 OCTOBER

1920       The 10th and first Dalit President of the country, K. R. Narayanan was born in 1920.

1952       Anuradha Paudwal, who created a special identity with the hymns along with the film world, was born in 1952.

2008       The Central Government issued a notification of interim relief to journalists and non-journalists of the newspaper industry.

1947       Raja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir accepted the accession of Jammu and Kashmir into India.

28 OCTOBER

1867       Birth of Swami Vivekananda’s disciple Bhagini Nivedita in Ireland

1913       Jain Shwetambar Terapanthi Sabha was established

1851       The British Indian Association was established in Bengal.