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India in history this Week-November 5 to November 11, 2021

05 NOVEMBER

1556       In the second battle of Panipat, the Mughal ruler Akbar defeated Hemu.

1920       Indian Red Cross Society was established.

1961       India‘s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visited New York.

2001       India and Russia rejected the Taliban’s participation in the Afghan government.

1870       The great freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das was born.

06 NOVEMBER

1763       The British army defeated Meerkasim and captured Patna.

1913       Mahatma Gandhi led ‘The Great March’ against apartheid policies in South Africa.

1998       India’s proposal for ceasefire in Siachen rejected by Pakistan

1943       During the Second World War, Japan handed over Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

1962       National Defense Council was established.

2000       Jyoti Basu stepped down after being Chief Minister of West Bengal for 23 consecutive years.

07 NOVEMBER

1858       Bipin Chandra Pal, the great revolutionary who fought against the British, was born on 7 November.

1862       Bahadur Shah II, the last ruler of the Mughal Sultanate, died in Rangoon.

1876       Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed the song Vande Mataram in a village called Kantal Pada in Bengal.

1888       Renowned scientist Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman was born.

2006       India and ASEAN agreed to create a fund for the development of science and technology.

2008       The famous poet Rahman Rahi of Kashmir was conferred with the Jnanpith Award.

1711       The ship of the Dutch East India Company sank all of the 300 crew.

1978       Indira Gandhi was re-elected to the Indian Parliament.

08 NOVEMBER

1661       Sikh religious teacher Har Rai died.

2008       India’s first unmanned space mission Chandrayaan-1 reached the lunar orbit.

2016       Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation and 500,1000 notes were discontinued. After that, new 2000 notes were issued.

1999       Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar set a world record by sharing 331 runs in a one-day cricket match.

2005       Criticized the terrorist actions of Palestinian organizations in India and the repression of Israel.

1627       The Mughal ruler Jahangir died.

1920       India’s famous Kathak dancer Sitara Devi was born.

09 NOVEMBER

1236       The Mughal ruler Ruknuddin Firoz Shah was assassinated.

1270       The great saint Namdev was born.

1947       Junagadh state merged into India.

1960       First Indian Air Force Chief Subroto Mukherjee died.

2000       Uttarakhand was carved out of Uttar Pradesh and made a new state.

10 NOVEMBER

2001       Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the United Nations General Assembly.

2013       The famous Rajasthani language litterateur Vijaydan Detha passed away.

1978       Rohini Khandilkar became the first woman to win the National Chess Championship.

2008       India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by defeating Australia 2–0.

2008       Giving strategic depth to India-Qatar relations, the two countries signed the Defense and Security Agreement.

11 NOVEMBER

1888       Freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was born in Saudi Arabia.

1973       The first international postage exhibition started in New Delhi.

1889       Freedom fighter Jamnalal Bajaj was born in 1889.

1943       Indian nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar was born in 1943.

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