13 MAY

1905 Birth of former President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

1952 The first session of Parliament was called in independent India.

1962 Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan became the second President of the country.

1978 The country’s first flag carrier INS Delhi was relieved

1998 India conducted two more nuclear tests, regardless of the criticism and pressure around the world.

2001 The death of RK Narayan, one of the biggest names in Indian literature.

1648 Construction of the Red Fort in Delhi was completed.

2000 Lara Dutta of India was elected Miss Universe.

1956 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the spiritual leader who founded the Art of Living Foundation, was born.

1918 The famous Bharatanatyam dancer T. Balasaraswati was born.

14 MAY

1992 India banned LTTE, a Sri Lankan rebel organization known as the Tamil Tigers. Apart from India, many other countries also banned the Tamil Tigers.

1944 British troops captured Kohima in 1944.

2001 Seven agreements in India and Malaysia.

2010 Considering 22 between India and Russia in 2010 in defense, nuclear energy, space, science and technology, hydrocarbons, trade and investment etc.

1923 Mrinal Sen, the famous producer and director of Indian films, was born.

1981 Indian inventor and computer scientist Pranav Mistry was born.

1943 Allah Baksh died during the British rule, was a zamindar, government contractor, freedom fighter fighter and politician.

15 MAY

1907 Birth of Sukhdev Thapar hanging on the noose hanging with Bhagat Singh and Rajguru.

1967 Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit was born.

1817 Birth of social reformer Devendra Nath Tagore.

1242 Sultan of Delhi Muizuddin Bahram Shah’s army revolted and killed Sultan.

1933 India’s’ First Army Commander in Chief Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa passed away.

2005 Indian aircraft landed in Canada after 20 years.

2008 Manjula Sood of Indian origin became the first Asian woman to become mayor in Britain.

1923 Indian comedian Johnny Walker was born in 1923.

1817 Eminent scholar and religious leader Devendranath Thakur was born in 1817.

16 MAY

2014 The demise of Indian industrialist Rustomji Homaji Modi.

1911 Construction of Tallah Water Tank in Calcutta (now Kolkata) completed. It was called the world’s largest overhead water tank at that time.

1960 Start of international telex service between India and UK.

1975 Sikkim was incorporated into the Indian Union as the 22nd state.

1996 Atal Bihari Vajpayee was sworn in as the tenth Prime Minister of India.

2008 The Supreme Court rejected the decision of the Kolkata High Court to ban the 27% OBC quota in postgraduate courses of central educational institutions.

17 MAY

1769 The East India Company imposed a variety of restrictions on weavers to ruin Bengal’s textile industry.

1918 Birth of India’s famous industrialist and top member of Tata group, Russian Modi

1987 Sunil Gavaskar retired from Test cricket.

2007 The fourth round of the India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue commenced in Rawalpindi.

2010 Promoting the country’s oldest traditional sports, Kabaddi, the Punjab government announced the hosting of the Kabaddi World Cup next month.

2014 The death of CP Krishnan Nair, the famous hotel industrialist of India and founder of the ‘Hotel Leela Group’.

1865 Celebration of World Communication Day started.

2018 BS Yeddyurappa took the oath of office of Chief Minister of Karnataka for the third time.

1980 A record of standing for 33 hours on one leg was set by VS Kumar Anand.

1995 The Restricted Area Permit (RAP) was abolished by the three northeastern states of the country.

18 MAY

1912 The first Indian feature length film Sri Pundalik was released.

1974 India became a nuclear power country with its first underground atomic bomb test in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The trial was named ‘Smiling Buddha’.

2008 Indian-origin writer Indra Sinha was awarded the Commonwealth Award in 2008 for her book Animal People.

1914 S. Tenth Governor of Reserve Bank of India. Jagannathan was born.

1933 HD Deve Gowda, the twelfth Prime Minister of India was born.

1966 India’s famous botanist Panchanan Maheshwari died.

19 MAY

1913 Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy was born, who later became the President of the country.

1954 The National Film Board was formed by the government in the country.

1969 Andhra Pradesh came under a terrible storm which took 608 lives. Not only this, around 20000 people were rendered homeless in this storm.

 1971         The first naval submarine station was built at Visakhapatnam.

1980 TN Raina died when he was General of India.

1992 Tennis player Leander Paes was awarded the Arjuna Award.

1993 The government had decided to link the power with Indian Airlines.

1904 One of the first industrialists of India, Jamsetji Nusrawanji Tata was killed.