28 JANUARY
2009 Calcutta Medical College started in West Bengal.
1928 Raja Ramanna, the leading physicist of the country, was born.
1930 The classical singer Pandit Jasraj, who belonged to Mewati Gharana, was born.
1999 Lamb was born from a protected embryo for the first time in India.
2007 Famous musician OP Nayyar died.
1961 The first factory of HMT watches was started in 1961 in Bangalore.
1988 Death penalty given to 26 accused in the ‘Rajiv Gandhi murder case’.
29 JANUARY
1597 Maharana Pratap was born.
1780 Publication of the country’s first newspaper Hikki Gazette or Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser from Calcutta (now Kolkata) began.
1994 Government of India repealed the Air Corporation Act 1953.
30 JANUARY
1948 Mahatma Gandhi, who had contributed significantly to India’s freedom struggle, was assassinated.
1530 Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar passed away.
31 JANUARY
1561 Bairam Khan, who played an important role in making the Mughal emperor deserving of a throne, was killed.
1963 The peacock was declared the national bird of India in 1963.
2007 Indian steel company Tata became the fifth largest company in the world in 2007 after the acquisition of Anglo Dutch steel company Corus.
1923 Birth of Somnath Sharma, the first Indian martyr to get ‘Paramveer Chakra’ in 1923.
01 FEBRUARY
1881 St. Stephen’s College, the oldest college in Delhi, was established.
2003 Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-American astronaut, died.
1930 The Times published the cross word puzzle for the first time.
1977 Indian Navy Coast Guard is formed.
02 FEBRUARY
1814 Calcutta (now Kolkata) Museum established.
1915 Khushwant Singh, a well-known writer, poet and columnist of the country, was born.
1952 India wins the first Test cricket in Madras.
03 FEBRUARY
1934 The process of sending Paracel by airplanes for the first time began. It was started by the company which is today known as Lufthansa.
1963 Former Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan was born.
1916 Banaras Hindu University started.
1988 The first nuclear submarine (INS Chakra) joined the Indian Army.
2008 There are indications that the stolen Nobel Prize of poet Guru Ravindra Nath Tagore was in Bangladesh.