India in history this Week- July 21, 2023, to july 27, 2023

21 JULY
1920 Sharada Ma, the wife of Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa passed away.
1947 The Constituent Assembly of India approved the national flag.
1963 Kashi Vidyapeeth got the status of university.
2007 Pratibha Patil became the first woman President of India.
1883 Hall Star Theater, India’s first public theater in Kolkata, started in 1883.
1962 India fought a war on the border between China in 1962.

1930 Famous film lyricist Anand Bakshi was born.
22 JULY
1933 Nationalist leader Mohan Sen Gupta died.
1918 Indralal Rai, India’s first skilled pilot, was killed in a battle with Germany in London during the First World War.
1947 The Constituent Assembly adopted the Tricolor as the national flag of the country.
1981 Apple, India’s first geostationary satellite, started functioning.


2012 Pranab Mukherjee elected the 13th President of India.
1999 The Work Plan for Equal Remuneration for Equal Work by the International Labor Organization came into force in 1999.

2009 The longest total solar eclipse of the 29th century was the solar eclipse of 22 July 2009.
1968 India’s famous female physician, social worker and recipient of Padma Bhushan, Muttu Lakshmi Reddy died in 1968.
23 JULY
1856 Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born.

1906 The revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad was born.
2004 The king of comedy, Mahmood Ali, died.
2016 Famous Chitrakar S. born in India. H. Raza passed away
24 JULY
1937 Famous Indian actor Manoj Kumar was born.

2004 Italy decided to start a seven visa call center for Indian tourists.
1932 Ramakrishna Mission Service Establishment was established.
1994 Bodo militants killed 37 Muslims in Assam’s busbari.


2000 S. Vijayalakshmi became the first female grandmaster of chess.
1969 The Apollo-11 spacecraft returned to Earth.
1989 Almost all the members of the opposition in the Lok Sabha resigned, which was accepted.
25 JULY
1813 The first boat race was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

1977 Giani Zail Singh was sworn in as the seventh President of India.
1987 Rangaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India.
1992 SD Sharma became the ninth President of India.
1997 KR Narayanan became the tenth President of India.
1844 Birth of India’s leading educationist Gurudas Banerjee.
26 JULY
2008 There were 21 blasts in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat. 56 people were killed and more than 200 injured in this accident.

1876 Establishment of Indian Association in Calcutta.
2005 Unprecedented rain in Mumbai stalled life, killing more than a thousand people.
2002 The first Chhattisgarh State Shooting Championship started.
2009 India becomes the sixth country to launch nuclear submarine.
27 JULY
1897 Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested for the first time.
1982 The first American visit of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in nearly 11 years.
1994 Shooter Jaspal Rana won the gold medal in the World Shooting Championship.
1839 Central Reserve Police Force was established.
2015 The 11th President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam died in Shillong.
1889 The branch of the Indian National Congress was opened in London in 1889 under the leadership of Dadabhai Naoroji, William Wedderburn, WS Cann and William Digby in London.
1935 Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s wife Mata Ramabai died in 1935.

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