15 APRIL
1469 Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was born in 1469.
1976 India announces sending its envoy to Beijing for the first time in 15 years.
1980 Six non-government banks were nationalized. Earlier also some banks were nationalized in the same way.
2010 Launch of the first cryogenic rocket GSLV-D3 built in India failed.
1948 The state of Himachal Pradesh was established.
1994 Acceptance of ‘Get’ agreement in 1994 by 109 countries including India.
2004 LTTE militant V. Muralitharan, linked to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, was killed in 2004 in Colombo.
16 APRIL
1853 In India, the first train ran from Mumbai to Thane in 1853.
1919 Gandhiji declared a fast on this day in 1919 to pay tribute to those who died in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
2008 The statue of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in 2008 in London.
2004 India defeated Pakistan 2–1 in the series by winning the Rawalpindi Test.
17 APRIL
1952 The first Lok Sabha of the country was formed on this day in 1952.
1977 On this day in 1977, the Independence Party merged with the Janata Party and emerged as a big party.
1996 On this day in 1996, the Indian Railways had interrupted AIDS patients from traveling.
1983 India launched the SLV-3 rocket in 1983.
2003 The Indo-British Parliamentary Forum was formed in 2003 after 55 years.
2008 Four important agreements were signed between India and Brazil in 2008.
18 APRIL
1612 Shah Jahan marries Mumtaz.
1859 Tatya Tope, who had created a reputation for independence in the country, was hanged for playing a decisive role in the first revolution of independence of 1857.
1917 Gandhiji selected Champaran in Bihar to start his Satyagraha movement.
1950 Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan movement with 80 acres of land in Panchampalli village in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh.
1971 India’s first jumbo jet Boeing 747 arrives in Bombay. It was named Emperor Ashoka.
1978 Sobha Singh, who built modern New Delhi, died.
1991 Kerala was declared the first fully literate state in the country.
1991 Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee lost the confidence vote in the Lok Sabha by one vote.
2001 16 soldiers of India martyred due to the firing of Bangladesh army into Indian border.
2008 India and Mexico enter into new agreements in the field of civil aviation and energy.
19 APRIL
1451 Bahlol Lodi captured Delhi.
1950 Shyama Prasad Mukherjee becomes the first Minister to resign from the Union Cabinet.
1975 India enters the space age by launching its first satellite Aryabhata. It was the first scientific satellite of India.
1882 Start of first maternity hospital in Calcutta.
1971 India defeated the West Indies and won the Test cricket series.
20 APRIL
1997 Indra Kumar Gujral became the 2nd Prime Minister of the country.
21 APRIL
1451 Bahlol Khan Lodi, the founder of the Lodi dynasty, became the ruler of Delhi in 1451.
1938 The famous poet Mohammad Iqbal, author of Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindostan Hamara…, died in Lahore, Pakistan.
1996 Sanjay Thapar of the Indian Air Force was landed on the Northern Dhruv by parachute.
1526 Ibrahim Lodi was killed in the first battle of Panipat in 1526 between Babar and Ibrahim Lodi, the ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1720 Baji Rao I succeeded Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath in 1720.
2001 India lodged a strong protest over the brutal killing of Indian soldiers in Bangladesh.
1924 Birth of India’s first shooter Karni Singh in 1924, honored with the 1961 ‘Arjuna Award’.