14 JULY
1945 Technology veteran and country’s big industrialist Shiv Nadar was born on 14 July.
1969 85 people killed in a train and passenger train collision in Jaipur.
15 JULY
1857 Indian Rebellion of 1857: Second massacre took place in Kanpur.
1926 Buses were introduced for the first time in the Indian city of Mumbai.
1955 First President Dr. Rajendra Prasad announced the award of the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna to the then Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru.
1984 After the unrest of the Sikh community in Punjab, it was declared a terrorism affected area.
1903 Kamaraj, the veteran politician and reformist leader, was born.
1937 Well-known Hindi journalist Prabhash Joshi was born.
1909 Durgabai Deshmukh, the first female leader of Andhra Pradesh, was born.
1912 Mohammed Osman, a high officer of the Indian Army, was born. He was martyred in the First War of India and Pakistan (1947–48).
2004 Indian medical scientist and family planning expert Bano Jahangir Koyaji passed away.
2011 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched GSAT-12A from Sriharikota through PSLV C-17.
16 JULY
1909 Aruna Asaf Ali, who fought the freedom struggle, was born.
1969 27 children died in the country due to food in school.
1856 The remarriage of Hindu widows got legal recognition.
17 JULY
1948 Women in the country were declared eligible in any type of civil services including the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service.
1950 India’s first plane crashed in Pathankot.
18 JULY
1927 Birthday of Ghazal Emperor Mehdi Hasan.
1947 The Indian Independence Act Act received royal approval.
2012 Indian films superstar Rajesh Khanna died in his bungalow Blessing.
1857 Establishment of Bombay University.
1955 Electricity produced from nuclear power was sold commercially for the first time.
1980 ‘Rohini-1’ satellite built entirely in India, placed in the Earth’s orbit.
2010 Joseph, a professor in Kerala, was attacked by eight people and cut off his hands, accusing them of insulting Islam.
2002 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was elected the 12th President of the country in 2002.
2003 Venugopal Reddy became the new Governor of the Reserve Bank in 2003.
2008 Indian-origin Salman Rushdie set a record for signing over a thousand books in 57 minutes during a 2008 promotion tour.
19 JULY
1827 The revolutionary Mangal Pandey was born in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
1969 The Government of India took the decision in 1969 to nationalize 14 major banks of the country.
2005 Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the US Congress.
1975 The bones of Indian revolutionary Udham Singh were brought from London to New Delhi in 1974.
1938 Indian physics scientist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was born on 19 July 1938.
20 JULY
1997 Indo-Bangladesh agreement on Teesta river water sharing.
1761 Madhav Rao became the first Peshwa.
2017 Ram Nath Kovind was elected the 14th President of India in 2017.
1965 India’s famous revolutionary Batukeshwar Dutt died on 20 July 1965.
1982 Meera Ben, the daughter of a British military officer, died in 1982 and who promoted Khadi in the ‘Indian freedom struggle’ influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s principles.