14 JANUARY

1741: Third war of Panipat started between Marathas and Afghans.

1964  Test bowler Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni set a record for throwing 21 maiden overs.

1977  Narayan Karthikeyan, the first Indian to fill the Formula One race, was born on this day.

2016  Social activist and famous litterateur Mahashweta Devi was born.

15 JANUARY

1784  Establishment of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

1934  An earthquake measuring 8.7 struck India and Nepal. About 11,000 lives were lost in this earthquake.

1988  Former India bowler Narendra Hirwani, taking historic feat, took 16 wickets in his debut Test match against West Indies.

2012  India’s first female photo journalist Homi Vairala died.

16 JANUARY

2009  On this day, Kalpana Chawla filled the space shuttle Columbia, spent 372 hours in space

1769  Pondicherry was annexed by the British from the French.

1681  The grand coronation of Sambhaji, son of Kshatrapati Shivaji, took place at Raigad Fort in Maharashtra.

1938  Death of noted Bengali litterateur Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

17 JANUARY

2008  The Central Government approved a scheme of Rs 1800 crore for providing jobs to the disabled.

2009  Randhir Singh, the general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association, resigned from his post.

2010  The Supreme Court of India has given a pro-active definition of the right to self-defense in the event of unlawful assault, saying that people who follow the law do not have to be cowardly. Its two-member bench set a 10-point directive on the right to self-defense, stating that a person cannot be criminalized under these circumstances, even if he had caused the attacker’s death.

18 JANUARY

1996  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister NT Rama Rao died on 18 January 1996.

1955  On this day in 1955, the famous Urdu writer and poet Sadat Hasan Manto said goodbye to this world.

1991  After 62 years of business, in 1991, today the Eastern airline was closed for economic reasons.

2003  Famous Hindi writer and poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan died in 2003.

1930  In 1930 Rabindranath Tagore visited the Sabarmati Ashram.

1997  In 1997, Nafisa Joseph became Miss India.

20 JANUARY

1988  Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the greatest activist of Pashtun independence and called Frontier Gandhi, was born.

1817  Hindu college was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

1945  National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who is considered the master mind of surgical strike, was born.