India in history this Week- April 22, 2022, to April 28, 2022

22 APRIL

1921  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from the Indian Civil Service in 1921.

1970  Earth Day was celebrated for the first time in the world.

1958  Admiral RD Katari became the first chief in the Indian Navy in 1958.

1974  Indian writer Chetan Bhagat was born in 1974.

1969  The famous revolutionary of ‘Kakori Kand’ Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee passed away in 1969.

23 APRIL

1858  Babu Veer Kunwar Singh of Jagdishpur, the hero of India‘s first freedom struggle passed away.

1987  The Supreme Court ruled the widows share in the property.

1992  Satyajit Rai, who was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the famous Indian filmmaker-director, died in 1992.

1995  Celebration of World Book Day began.

1984  Scientists found out about the AIDS virus in 1984.

2005  The first video was uploaded to YouTube in 2005.

2013  West Indies explosive batsman Chris Gayle scored the fastest century in cricket history in 2013 in just 30 balls.

1504  Birth of the second Sikh religious leader Angad in 1504.

24 APRIL

1973  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the country’s greatest cricketer who was considered among the best batsmen in the world in the history of cricket, was born on this day.

1815  The Gorkha Regiment, considered the first and bravest battalion of the Indian Army, has completed 200 years today.

1815  The foundation stone of Gorkha Regime was laid in 1815 in Himachal.

1972  The famous Indian painter Gemini Roy died on this day in 1972. He was also awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1955.

25 APRIL

1968  Hindustani classical music singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan died.

1982  Doordarshan aired a colorful picture for the first time in 1982.

1933  On this day, the terrorists who hijacked the Air Indian plane were killed.

2000  On this day, the mastermind of Kandahar Hijack, Bilal alias Lalu Mian, was arrested from West Bengal.

2007  The new campus of the Virala Institute of Technology and Sciences opened in 2007 in Panama (Bahrain).

2010  In 2010, the Indian Navy began the process of procuring new Light Utility Helicopters (LUHs) in place of the old Chetak helicopters.

1969  India’s famous football player IM Vijayan was born in 1969.

26 APRIL

1920  The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam passed away.

1975  Sikkim became the 22nd state of India.

1847  The Bombay Gadget newspaper was first published in 1841 on silk cloth.

1929  The first non-stop flight from England to India was completed in 1929.

1980  Situated in 1980, the Center for Positional Astronomy was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

1990  In 1990, VRP Menon set a world record by performing disco dance for 463 hours in a row.

1993  A 1993 Boeing-737 plane crash in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, killed about 60 people.

2006  India and Uzbekistan signed 6 treaties in 2006.

2008  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country in 2008.

2010  The Bihar government decided in 2010 to brand Bihar’s famous Chiniya banana as ‘Ganga Banana’.

1864  Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi, a disciple of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and one of the five prominent leaders of the Arya Samaj, was born.

27 APRIL

1526  The Mughal ruler Babur defeated the Sultan of Delhi and became the new emperor.

1748  The Mughal ruler Muhammad Shah died in Delhi.

1878  The University of Calcutta gave the first approval for eligibility for women in the field of university education.

1960  Establishment of National Defense College in New Delhi.

1912  The great actress Zohra Sehgal was born.

28 APRIL

1916  BG Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League in 1916.

1932  The development of yellow fever vaccine for humans was announced in 1932.

2003  Employee Safety and Health Day was observed around the world in 2003.

2008  The Indian Space Research Organization created a new history in 2008 with PSLV-C9.

1791  Hari Singh Nalwa, the Chief of Army Staff of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was born.

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