17 DECEMBER

1645       Nur Jahan Begum, wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, died.

1928       In order to avenge the murder of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev shot and killed assistant superintendent of police John Saunders.

2002       Turkey supported India on Kashmir issue.

1715       Banda Bahadur Bairagi, the chief of the Sikhs, surrendered to the Mughals at Gurdaspur.

1933       India’s legendary cricketer Lala Amarnath played an excellent innings of 118 runs in his debut Test match.

1940       Mahatma Gandhi postponed the individual Satyagraha movement.

1971       The third war between India and Pakistan ended after Bangladesh came into existence as a result of the partition of Pakistan.

1996       National Football League was launched.

18 DECEMBER

1897       Bhojpuri artist, musician and social worker Bhikhari Thakur was born.

1271       The Mongol emperor Kublai Khan named his empire as Yuan. With this began the Yuan dynasty.

1960       The National Museum was inaugurated in the capital Delhi.

1398       Timur captured Delhi by defeating Sultan Nusrat Shah.

1989       Sachin played his first ODI against Pakistan.

1995       Unidentified aircraft dropped weapons in Purulia, West Bengal.

1997       The Washington Treaty concluded for cooperation in space research between India and the United States.

2008       The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully tested.

2017       India won 29 gold out of 30 at Commonwealth Wrestling Championships.

2017       The heaviest rocket GSLV Mark-3 was successfully launched.

19 DECEMBER

1927       The great freedom fighters Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaq Ulla Khan and Roshan Singh were hanged by the British.

1961       Goa got independence from Portugal’s slavery. Indian troops entered the border of Goa under Operation Vijay.

1945       The institute in Mumbai was relocated to the Kenilworth bungalow on Pedder Marg. It was inaugurated by the then Governor of Mumbai, Sir John Colville.

1998       Amartya Sen was awarded honorary citizenship by Bangladesh, Sheel Kumar (India) as the best player in world disabled skiing held in Denver (USA).

1860       Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856, died in Britain.

1937       India’s 12th President Pratibha Patil was born in Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

20 DECEMBER

1875       The ICRM renamed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

1876       The great poet Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed the national song ‘Vande Mataram’.

1955       Indian Golf Association was formed.

1985       In the Tirupati Balaji temple, Lord Venkateswara was offered a diamond studded crown valued at Rs 5.2 crore.

1990       India and Pakistan agreed not to attack each other nuclear.

1988       The United Nations Convention against Non-Government Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, which controls international crime against the trade of illegal drugs, was signed in Vienna.

1993       A cooperation agreement was signed between India and the European Union in Brussels.

21 DECEMBER

2011       The country’s famous nuclear physicist PK Iyengar died.

1911       The first indigenous bank, Central Bank of India, was founded by Sorabji Pochkhanwala.

2008       Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan were included in the list of 50 powerful people of the world by US magazine News Bik.

2009       The first meeting of the Finance Committee and Executive Board (BoG) of Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi was held.

1974       INS Satavahana, the country’s first vessel to offer submarine training, was inducted into the ship fleet at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

2012       “Gangnam Style” became the first video to be viewed one billion times on YouTube.

22 DECEMBER

1851       The first freight train in our country ran from Roorkee to Piran.

1953       Sharada Devi, the wife of Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and spiritual companion was born.

1887       Mathematician Srinivasan Ramanujam was born.

1940       Manvendra Nath Rai announced the establishment of the Radical Democratic Party.

2011       The well-known nuclear physicist P.K. Iyengar died.

1843       Rabindranath Tagore’s father Devendranath Tagore joined the Brahmo Samaj.

1966       Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi was established by the Indian Parliament under the ‘JNU Act’.

2006       India and Pakistan set up a joint task force for mutual cooperation in the field of local bodies.

23 DECEMBER

1902       The birth of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of the country popular as the leader of the farmers. This day is celebrated as ‘Farmer’s Day’ in the country.

1921       Visva-Bharati University was inaugurated.

1926       Murder of Swami Shraddhanand, a proven freedom fighter, social reformer, pro-Dalit benefactor, supporter of women’s education and Arya Samaj campaigner.

1968       Successful launch of country’s first rocket ‘Maneka’.

1995       360 people died due to fire in a school program in Mandi Dabwali area of ??Haryana.

2000       Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, was officially renamed Kolkata.

2008       The software company Satyam was banned by the World Bank.

2004       9th Prime Minister of India Narasimha Rao died.

24 DECEMBER

1894       First medical conference organized in Calcutta.

1889       The first amusement park in India was opened in Essel World Mumbai.

2000       Vishwanathan Anand became world chess champion.

2002       The Delhi Metro was launched by Shahadra Tis Hazari Line.

2008       55% votes were cast in the last phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.

2014       It was announced that Bharat Ratna was awarded to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malaviya.

1973       EV Ramaswamy Naikar died in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.