India in history this Week- July 28, 2023, to august 3, 2023

28 JULY
1914 Kamagata Maru was evacuated from Venkuvar and sent to India.
1979 Charan Singh became the fifth Prime Minister of the country.
29 JULY
1876 Science organization was established in India.
1891 Famous social reformer, educationist and freedom fighter Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar died.
1996 Aruna Asaf Ali, one of the prominent women who contributed to the Indian freedom struggle, died in Kolkata.
1748 The first army of the British Army arrived in India in 1748 to assist the East India Company.
1911 Mohun Bagan won the IF Shield for the first time in 1911.
2000 Seema Bhadauria pulled a 3390 kg aircraft with her teeth on 29 July 2000.


1904 Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata, one of the industrial personalities who laid the foundation of modern India, was born.

30 JULY
1886 India’s first female legislator, S. Muthulakshmi, was born.
2012 In India, 300 million people had to live without electricity due to major power grid failure.
2012 In 2012, 32 people died and 27 were injured when a train caught fire in Andhra Pradesh.

31 JULY

1880 Famous Hindi storyteller and novelist Premchand was born.
1940 Freedom fighter Amar Shaheed Udham Singh died on the day.
1924 The Madras Presidency Club pioneered the conduct of radio broadcasts.
1933 Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram.
1948 Establishment of the first state transport service in Calcutta in India.
1980 The great playback singer of Hindi films, Mohammed Rafi passed away.
1993 Inauguration of India’s first floating maritime museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
2007 Indian-American doctor Sudhir Parikh was awarded the Pal Harris Award.
1861 Cherrapunji in Assam received 9,300 milliliters of rain, which became a world record.
1950 India and Nepal signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1950.
2000 The Lok Sabha passed the Chhattisgarh State Construction Bill in 2000 by voice.
2012 Ashok Sen was declared one of the nine winners of the first Yuri Milner Fundamental Physics Prize (Fundamental Physics Award).

01 AUGUST
1920 Mahatma Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation Movement.
1957 National Book Trust was established.
1999 Bengali and English writer Nird.C. Chaudhary died in Britain.
1920 Mahatma Gandhi returned the Kesar-e-Hind Award given by the British Government in 1920.
1947 The partition of powers between India and Pakistan in 1947.
1985 In 1952, the first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated Nationalized Airways at Safdarjung.
1953 All airlines in the country were nationalized on 1953.
1992 The then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao dedicated the Vizag Steel Plant to the nation in 1992.
2008 In 2008, the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved India’s Special Monitoring Agreement.
1899 Kamala Nehru, the wife of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was born.

1932 Famous Hindi film actress Meena Kumari was born.
1916 Annie Besant, former president of the Indian National Congress, launched the Home Rule League.
2004 Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup of Cricket by defeating India.

02 AUGUST
1763 After the capture of Murshidabad, the British army defeated Mir Qasim in the Battle of Giriya.
1876 Pingali Venkaiah, who designed the Indian flag, was born.
1858 The Government of India Act was passed by the British Government.
1858 The Government of India transferred the East India Company to the British Crown.
1987 Vishwanath Anand won the World Junior Chess Championship.
1999 The Brahmaputra Mail collided face-to-face with the Awadh-Assam Express at Ghasal. Both trains were running on the same track from the opposite direction.
2001 Pakistan approved Chinese imports from India.

1861 Famous scientist Prafulla Chandra Rai, who was considered the ‘father of chemistry’, was born.

03 AUGUST

1886 Famous Hindi poet Maithilisharan Gupta was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.
1985 Baba Amte was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
2012 The Workplace Safety Bill, 2010 passed against sexual harassment of women in 2012.

1993 Swami Chinmayananda, the famous spiritual thinker of India and world-renowned scholar of Vedanta philosophy, died in 1993.

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