23 SEPTEMBER
1908 Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar was born on this day.
1803 The British East India Company defeated the Maratha army in the Battle of Asa.
1862 Birth of great patriot and politician Srinivas Shastri.
1863 The death of 1857 freedom fighter Rao Rao Ram.
1929 Child marriage abolition bill (Saradha Law) passed.
1965 Order of ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
2009 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) placed seven satellites in orbit, including the Indian satellite Ocean Sat-2.
24 SEPTEMBER
1861 Bhikaji Cama, the lofty voice of women’s rights, was born.
1932 Poona Pact was signed between Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi in Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail for the rights of untouchables.
2014 ISRO’s satellite Mangalyaan successfully entered the orbit of Mars.
2008 The Madras High Court dismissed the petition regarding premature release of Nalini and two other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi murder case.
1932 Bengal’s revolutionary nationalist Pritilata Wadeedar became the first woman to lay down her life for the country’s independence.
2009 India’s first Chandrayaan-1 discovered water on the lunar surface.
1726 The East India Company was authorized to form municipal and mayor courts in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.
1940 India’s famous female swimmer Aarti Saha was born.
25 SEPTEMBER
1524 Vasco da Gama came to India for the last time.
1916 Indian economist, sociologist, journalist and great thinker Deendayal Upadhyaya was born.
1914 Former Deputy Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Devi Lal was born.
2009 The Enforcement Directorate of India revealed the hawala network of about five thousand crore rupees.
1920 Birth of India’s famous rocket scientist Satish Dhawan.
1955 India’s first female physician Rukmabai passed away.
2006 Demand for Indian citizenship to Dalai Lama.
26 SEPTEMBER
1820 Indian social reformer, educationist and freedom fighter Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born.
1923 Bollywood actor Dev Anand was born in Punjab (Pakistan).
1932 Manmohan Singh, the 13th Prime Minister of the country, was born in a village in the Punjab province of undivided India.
1998 Sachin Tendulkar broke Desmond Haynes’ world record by scoring an 18th century in a one-day cricket match against Zimbabwe.
27 SEPTEMBER
1883 The great social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy died.
1907 The great revolutionary Bhagat Singh was born.
1998 Google, the world’s largest search engine, was launched.
1760 Mir Qasim became the Nawab of Bengal.
2009 The talks between Indo-Pak foreign ministers started.
1871 Vitthalbhai Patel, elder brother of Sardar Patel and famous freedom fighter was born.
28 SEPTEMBER
1929 Swar Kokila Lata Mangeshkar was born.
1767 Sajjan 17 forbids private slave transport to the Cape of Good Hope, India.
1838 The last Mughal emperor in India Bahadur Shah Zafar ascended the throne after his father’s death.
1977 India’s famous poet Sumitranandan Pant died. He is one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature.
2004 The World Bank named India as the fourth largest economy in the world.
2011 Chief Minister Mayawati announced the creation of three more districts in Uttar Pradesh, comprising 72 districts, namely Panchsheel Nagar, Prabuddhanagar and Sambhal.
1836 Birth of spiritual master Shirdi Sai Baba.
29 SEPTEMBER
1932 The actor, producer-director Mahmood Ali was born.
1959 Aarati Saha became the first Asian woman to cross the English Channel.
1836 Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established.
1971 About 10 thousand people died due to cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal.
1837 The last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II took over the rule of Delhi.
1962 Birla Planetarium opens in Kolkata.
1928 India’s first National Security Advisor Brijesh Mishra was born.