23 JUNE

1980 Sanjay Gandhi, a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family, died in the plane crash.
1985 An Air India passenger plane crashed into the air near the coast of Ireland. All 329 passengers aboard the plane were killed in this accident.
1761 Death of Maratha ruler Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao.
1810 Construction of Duncan Dock of Bombay completed.
1953 Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee died in a hospital in Kashmir.
2008 JK Tire India Limited, the country’s leading tire maker, acquired Mexico‘s tire company Tornal and its subsidiaries for $ 270 million.
2008 The selection committee recommended in 2008 to confer the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on famous Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee.
2014 Gujarat’s ‘Rani Ki Vav’ and Himachal’s ‘Great Himalayan National Park’ were included in the 2014 World Heritage List.
1934 Gandhian thinker and social worker Chandi Prasad Bhatt was born.
24 JUNE
1654 Rani Durgavati was martyred during the war with the Mughals.
1961 India’s first indigenous HF24 supersonic fighter aircraft took off in 1961.

1966 117 people died when an Air India aircraft going from Mumbai to New York crashed in Mount Blanc, Switzerland. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, was among those killed.
1974 The Indian team was reduced to 42 against England in the second innings of the 1974 Lord’s Test. This is India’s minimum score in the Test and it lost by innings and 285 runs.
1986 The government announced that unmarried mothers will also get maternity leave under their employment scheme.
1989 A majority of opposition members resigned from the Lok Sabha in 1989 over the issue of the CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.
1990 Defense scientists successfully tested the country’s first third-generation anti-tank missile ‘NAG’ in 1990.
1885 Famous politician and staunch Sikh leader Tara Singh was born.
1869 Damodar Hari Chapekar, one of the revolutionary immortal martyrs of India, was born.
1863 Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade, the famous Indian writer, historian, best orator and scholar was born.
1980 The fourth President of India, V.V. Giri died.

25 JUNE

1908 Sucheta Kripalani, the first female Chief Minister in the country, was born.
1975 On the advice of Indira Gandhi-led Congress government, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed announced the imposition of Emergency in the country.
1932 The Indian cricket team played its first Test match at the Lord’s ground in Britain.
1983 India defeated the West Indies by 43 runs to win the Cricket World Cup title for the first time.
2004 Russia decided to extend a strategic partnership with India.
1903 Chandrashekhar Pandey – was born a litterateur.
1950 Swami Sahajanand Saraswati social reformer and revolutionary died.
1931 Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the eighth Prime Minister of India was born.
1975 Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey, an Indian Army officer who was posthumously awarded India’s highest gallantry medal Paramveer Chakra for exceptional bravery in the 1999 Kargil War, was born

26 JUNE
2004 Famous filmmaker Yash Johar died on this day.

1838 The birth of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist and creator of Vande Mataram.
1873 Birth of Indian singer and dancer Gauhar Jaan.
1888 Birth of Bal Gandharva, the great hero and famous singer of Marathi theater.
1918 Birth of Indian Lieutenant Second Lieutenant Rama Raghoba Rane, awarded Paramveer Chakra.
1961 Famous litterateur Govind Shastri Dugvekar passed away.
1967 The birth of Tarun Sagar, the famous saint of the Indian Digambara sect of Jainism.
1975 India’s first woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in the country.
1982 Air India’s first Boeing Gourishankar crashed in Mumbai.
27 JUNE

1839 Maharaj Ranjit Singh, the founder of the Sikh Empire, died.
1838 Nationalist author Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was born
1939 Music composer RD Burman, who gave music in more than 300 films, was born.
1964 PT Usha, who was known worldwide by the name of Udanpari, was born.
1964 Teen Murti Bhawan was made Nehru Museum.
2008 India and Pakistan have overcome bottlenecks in the commissioning of the Iranian gas pipeline project.

2008 Former Army Chief Sam Manekshaw, who played a key role in the Indian Army’s victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war, died

28 JUNE

1921 Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who had knowledge of 17 languages, was born.
1975 In the backdrop of anti-government protests during the Emergency in India, the Center implemented the most rigorous press censorship since Independence.
1986 Agreement with Mizo National Front, Lal Denga becomes Chief Minister of Mizoram.
1986 The Central Government also enacted a law to provide maternity leave to unmarried girls.
1996 India opened its mission in Palestinian-controlled Gaza City.

29 JUNE
1757 Mir Jafar succeeded the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.
1888 The first (known) recording of classical music was made.
2005 Composite 10-year agreement between India and the United States.
1893 Indian scientist and statistician Prashant Chandra Mahalanobis was born.