30 JUNE
1914 Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, was arrested for the first time in 1914 while agitating for the rights of Indians in South Africa.
1947 The members of the Boundary Commission for the partition of Bengal and Punjab were announced in 1947 after the partition of India.
2008 Ravikant, Uma Shankar Chaudhary and Vimal Chandra Pandey were jointly conferred with the Navlakhan Award of Jnanpith in 2008.
2008 Indian journalist Anisuddin Aziz was awarded the New Business of the Year Award of International Association of Book Keepers (IAB) in 2008.
1903 Indian politician and member of Lok Sabha Mukut Bihari Lal Bhargava was born.
1911 Indian litterateur Nagarjuna was born.
1934 India’s famous scientist C.N. R. Rao was born.
1917 India’s famous veteran politician, industrialist, educationist and thinker Dada Bhai Naoroji died.
1953 Jana Sangh founder Shyamaprasad Mukherjee died while imprisoned in Kashmir.
01 JULY
1852 A stamp named ‘Sindh Dak’ was issued by the Chief Commissioner of Sindh, Sir Bertlefrore, for use only in the state of Sindh and on the Mumbai Karachi route.
1862 Inauguration of Calcutta High Court.
1879 Postcard debut in India.
1955 The Imperial Bank of India was nationalized and named the State Bank of India.
1964 Establishment of Industrial Development Bank of India
1975 The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced a 20-point program.
1991 The Warsaw Pact was dissolved.
2006 Chess player Parimarjan Negi became the youngest second grandmaster.
2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) was introduced as a significant reform of the economy in India.
1938 The famous flute player Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia was born on this day.
1882 The second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Rai was born on this day. His birthday is celebrated as Doctor’s Day in the country.
02 JULY
1934 Asit Bhattacharya, one of the great revolutionaries of India, died.
1940 The British government arrested Subhash Chandra Bose on 2 July 1940 AD for inciting rebellion.
1948 Famous Janakavi Alok Dhanwa was born.
2004 The Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan held mutual talks in Jakarta.
2004 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
1916 Geological Survey of India was established.
03 JULY
1972 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and Pakistan’s JU Bhutto had a disarmament agreement on Kashmir.
2018 A part of the Gokhale Road overbridge fell near Andheri station in Mumbai.
1661 Portugal gifted Bombay to the British King Charles II.
1996 Rajkumar, actor of Hindi films passed away.
1760 The Maratha army occupied Delhi.
1979 Construction of the famous Vidyasagar bridge in Kolkata, called the second Howrah Bridge, began.
2005 Mahesh Bhupathi and Mary Pierce won the Wimbledon mixed pair title.
04 JULY
1789 Te East India Company entered into a treaty wit te Peswa and te Nizam against Tipu Sultan.
1881 Start of toy train between Siliguri and Darjeeling.
1902 Swami Vivekananda passed away.
1963 Death of freedom fighter Pingali Venkayya who designed te Tricolor.
05 JULY
1954 Andhra Pradesh High Court was established.
1968 India’s first submarine arrived from Soviet Russia.
1981 Rajan Mahadevan made a world record by calculating 31 thousand 811 digits of ‘pie’ of mathematics.
06 JULY
1787 Establishment of Indian Botanic Garden at Shivpur, West Bengal.
1901 The birth of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, an acute nationalist politician, educationist and founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
1944 Mahatma Gandhi was first addressed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as ‘Father of the Nation’.
1959 Vellore Hospital successfully underwent open heart surgery for the first time.
2006 The Nathula Pass, which had been closed since the war between India and China, was opened for business after 44 years.
1901 Birthday of Jana Sangh founder Shyama Mukherjee.
2002 Dhirubhai Ambani died.
1787 The Indian Botanical Garden was established in 1787 at Shibpur in West Bengal.
