Events

1565-01-25 - Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army
1757-01-02 - British troops occupy Calcutta India
1760-01-22 - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1761-01-07 - Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
1761-01-16 - The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1808-01-12 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1839-01-10 - Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1839-01-19 - Aden conquered by British East India Company
1842-01-06 - 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
1846-01-28 - Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)
1877-01-01 - England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
1897-01-23 - Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1916-01-01 - 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published
1924-01-12 - History of Science Society organized at Boston
1934-01-15 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1948-01-01 - Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test v India
1948-01-01 - Orissa province accedes to India
1948-01-01 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.
1948-01-03 - Bradman completes dual Test tons (132 & 127*) v India MCG
1948-01-23 - Bradman scores 201 in 272 mins v India, 21 fours 1 six
1948-01-23 - Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
1948-01-24 - Australia all out 674 v India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*)
1950-01-01 - The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India.
1950-01-24 - Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1950-01-26 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion
1952-01-21 - Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1954-01-23 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1957-01-26 - India annexes Kashmir
1959-01-01 - Rohan Kanhai completes 256 v India at Calcutta
1965-01-08 - Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
1966-01-10 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1968-01-31 - Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years
1972-01-21 - Tripura becomes a full-fledged state in India.
1974-01-02 - Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1975-01-25 - 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975-01-29 - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1977-01-10 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1977-01-19 - Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the Bahamas.
1978-01-01 - Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213
1978-01-24 - Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
1979-01-02 - Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)
1980-01-06 - Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India
1981-01-03 - Greg Chappell scores 204 v India at the SCG
1981-01-06 - 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
1981-01-08 - India all out 63 in one-day international v Australia
1981-01-24 - Kim Hughes scores 213 v India at Adelaide
1983-01-15 - Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
1985-01-02 - 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter
1985-01-15 - Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India
1986-01-04 - David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide
1988-01-11 - Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras
1988-01-25 - Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1992-01-02 - Test debut of Shane Warne, v India at Sydney
1992-01-03 - Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* v India at Sydney
1992-01-20 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1992-01-28 - Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 v India at Adelaide
1994-01-25 - Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1999-01-21 - War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kg (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
1999-01-22 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2001-01-26 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2002-01-22 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2005-01-25 - A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2007-01-04 - The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.

Birthdays

1501-01-17 - Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
1592-01-05 - Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
1592-01-14 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India
1685-01-07 - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
1829-01-05 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1855-01-10 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
1879-01-01 - Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)
1898-01-29 - Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha)
1900-01-28 - Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher (History of Ecuador)
1901-01-03 - Eric Voegelin, Germany, US philosopher (Order & History)
1913-01-17 - Yuvraj of Patiala, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India v Eng)
1916-01-22 - Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1919-01-19 - Dharam Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1919-01-26 - K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India v WI 1948-49)
1922-01-09 - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1924-01-27 - Sabu, [Dastagir], India, actor (Elephant Boy, Drum)
1925-01-12 - Ralph Legall, cricket wicket-keeper (WI v India 1954)
1925-01-17 - A H Kardar, cricketer (Pak 1st Test capt, prev played for India)
1927-01-27 - Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
1928-01-07 - Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India)
1946-01-31 - Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69)
1948-01-13 - Kenia Jayantilal, cricketer (5 at Kingston 71 his only inns for India)
1949-01-13 - Rakesh Sharma, India, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11)
1954-01-07 - Alan Butcher, cricketer (one Test England v India, scored 14 & 20)
1960-01-03 - Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India
1964-01-31 - Remi Bouchard, Lasalle Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 India Open)
1966-01-06 - Shahid Saeed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in Test v India 1989)
1967-01-15 - Richard Blakey, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993)
1973-01-11 - Rahul Dravid, cricket batter (prolific Karnataka, Tests for India 96)

Deaths

1948-01-30 - Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India
1952-01-05 - Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64
1968-01-29 - Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India), dies
1987-01-08 - P G Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), dies
1996-01-18 - N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), dies
1998-01-15 - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
2008-01-01 - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)

Events

1502-02-12 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1509-02-02 - The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1509-02-03 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1600-02-19 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1601-02-13 - John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1739-02-24 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1772-02-12 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1786-02-24 - Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1803-02-27 - Great fire in Bombay, India
1846-02-10 - British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846-02-16 - Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
1911-02-18 - The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
1925-02-28 - Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
1931-02-10 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1936-02-08 - Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1947-02-20 - Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1949-02-19 - Mass arrests of communists in India
1961-02-03 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962-02-25 - India Congress Party wins elections
1963-02-09 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964-02-09 - Hanumant Singh scores 105 India v England on debut at Delhi
1967-02-08 - Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1968-02-16 - Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1973-02-09 - Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party elected leader of opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1974-02-18 - US ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check
1976-02-17 - NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, v India
1976-02-17 - Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell
1978-02-03 - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978-02-03 - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1978-02-11 - 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin
1979-02-07 - Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
1981-02-11 - Australia all out 83 v India at MCG chasing 143 to win
1981-02-17 - Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1983-02-11 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm))
1983-02-22 - Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1986-02-02 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986-02-11 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1990-02-22 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1990-02-23 - Ian Smith 173* NZ v India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat
1992-02-02 - David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
1992-02-05 - Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win v India
1993-02-23 - India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England
1995-02-25 - Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
1996-02-18 - 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup v India
1996-02-27 - Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
1997-02-09 - Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1997-02-16 - At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1998-02-08 - 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
2008-02-23 - a B-2 Spirit of the USAF crashes at Guam. The crew survived but the aircraft was written off, making it the most expensive air crash in human history (the aircraft alone cost $1.2Bn). The B-2 had a perfect safety record before the crash; not one B-2 ever crashed.

Birthdays

1483-02-15 - Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
1887-02-26 - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
1896-02-29 - Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
1898-02-27 - Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1911-02-19 - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1912-02-27 - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
1922-02-24 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1932-02-29 - Gavin Stevens, cricket (Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour)
1936-02-08 - Manohar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India v WI 1958-59)
1936-02-09 - Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1941-02-26 - Keith Thomson, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests NZ v India 1968)
1941-02-27 - Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat)
1947-02-08 - Sam Gannon, cricketer (Austr lefty quick, 3 Tests v India 1977-78)
1948-02-04 - Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982)
1956-02-15 - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
1971-02-06 - Brad Hogg, cricketer (WA chinaman all-rounder, Australia v India 1996)
1976-02-20 - Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)

Deaths

1666-02-01 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
1707-02-20 - Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies
1713-02-11 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664)
1874-02-09 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
1963-02-28 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1975-02-18 - Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), dies
1982-02-22 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1982-02-25 - J K Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies
2008-02-25 - Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)

Events

0078-03-03 - Origin of Saka Era (India)
1500-03-09 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1556-03-28 - Origin of Fasli Era (India)
1609-03-25 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1668-03-26 - England takes control of Bombay India
1668-03-27 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1739-03-20 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1743-03-05 - 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1795-03-11 - Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1808-03-02 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
1849-03-29 - Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India
1888-03-14 - 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889-03-23 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1910-03-01 - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
1920-03-23 - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1922-03-18 - Brit magistrates in India sentence Gandhi to 6 years for disobedience
1930-03-08 - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934-03-10 - Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1939-03-03 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India.
1939-03-10 - 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940-03-23 - All-India-Moslem League calls for a Moslem homeland
1940-03-23 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1941-03-07 - 3rd largest snowfall in NYC history (18.1")
1949-03-05 - The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1955-03-01 - Pakistan v India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
1957-03-22 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1959-03-17 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1959-03-31 - Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1960-03-03 - 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")
1961-03-25 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1962-03-23 - Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days
1962-03-28 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India
1965-03-06 - Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
1971-03-09 - J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
1972-03-19 - India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
1977-03-20 - Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
1977-03-22 - Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
1977-03-28 - Morarji Desai forms govt in India
1978-03-30 - "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1980-03-04 - 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1982-03-02 - 60th hat trick in Islander history-Bryan Trottier
1982-03-04 - 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
1983-03-17 - 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1985-03-10 - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1986-03-28 - Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India
1989-03-18 - Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1990-03-27 - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1991-03-02 - Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
1994-03-21 - Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History
1995-03-12 - Congress party loses India national election
1996-03-09 - Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India
1996-03-11 - John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history, ending on December 3, 2007.
1996-03-13 - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996-03-31 - 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1998-03-24 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
2004-03-12 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2004-03-23 - Andhra Pradesh Federation of Trade Unions holds its first conference in Hyderabad, India.

Birthdays

1719-03-30 - John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
1906-03-25 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1910-03-16 - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
1917-03-12 - Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1920-03-15 - Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1921-03-13 - Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
1924-03-18 - Madhussudan Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49)
1927-03-25 - Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1930-03-01 - C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
1930-03-29 - G R Sunderam, cricket pace bowler (2 Tests India v NZ 1955-56)
1937-03-04 - Graeme Dowling, cricketer (New Zealand, 239 v India 1968)
1938-03-18 - Shashi Kapoor, Calcutta India, actor (Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939-03-29 - Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut)
1947-03-18 - David Lloyd, cricketer (England opener, 214 v India 1974)
1948-03-18 - Eknath Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1952-03-20 - Anand Armitraj, India, tennis player (Brother of ViJay)
1961-03-18 - Kevan James, cricketer (all-rounder 4 wkts/4 balls & ton v India 1996)
1968-03-01 - Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka v India at 17)
1978-03-28 - Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997)

Deaths

1351-03-20 - Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1510-03-01 - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1539-03-05 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1707-03-03 - Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1869-03-01 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
1898-03-01 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1949-03-30 - Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1950-03-04 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
1963-03-11 - Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts), dies
1978-03-13 - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
1978-03-29 - Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India), dies
1991-03-21 - Rajiv Gandhi, former PM of India, killed by bomb at 46
2007-03-14 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)

Events

1311-04-24 - Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1699-04-14 - Khalsa: Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1738-04-18 - Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1755-04-02 - Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
1759-04-08 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1783-04-09 - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1796-04-13 - 1st elephant arrives in US from India
1853-04-16 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1858-04-16 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1869-04-08 - American Museum of Natural History opens (NYC)
1881-04-18 - Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1888-04-20 - 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1896-04-06 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1905-04-04 - Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000
1919-04-13 - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1929-04-24 - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929-04-26 - 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1934-04-07 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1936-04-01 - Orissa constituted a province of British India
1939-04-13 - In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1944-04-01 - Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1944-04-14 - Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1953-04-01 - Walcott Worrell & Weekes all make centuries in innings v India
1955-04-11 - The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
1955-04-30 - Imperial Bank of India nationalized
1965-04-09 - India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1966-04-06 - Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India
1966-04-18 - Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1974-04-03 - The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1975-04-19 - India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
1976-04-12 - India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare
1976-04-25 - India all out for 97 v West Indies
1978-04-16 - "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1983-04-17 - India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1984-04-13 - India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1984-04-15 - Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
1985-04-08 - India files suit against Union Carbide over Bhopal disaster
1987-04-21 - Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1990-04-17 - Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1990-04-21 - Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history
1992-04-01 - NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992-04-27 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1994-04-13 - United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1995-04-14 - India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1998-04-06 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
1999-04-14 - A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2007-04-16 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2008-04-20 - Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

Birthdays

1506-04-07 - Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
1773-04-06 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1848-04-16 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
1856-04-11 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India
1889-04-14 - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1902-04-01 - L P Jai, cricketer (one Test India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0)
1916-04-14 - Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48)
1918-04-16 - Spike Milligan, India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1920-04-07 - Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
1921-04-26 - Margaret Gowing, professor (history, science)
1923-04-17 - Lindsay Anderson, Bangalore India, director (Thursday's Children)
1925-04-14 - H G Kischenchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52)
1936-04-15 - Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936-04-29 - Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
1941-04-14 - Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
1945-04-28 - Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969)
1961-04-18 - Pamella Bordes, New Dehli India, Brit parliament prostitute
1964-04-01 - John Morris, cricketer (England right-hand batsman v India 1990)
1964-04-15 - Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)

Deaths

1680-04-03 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1824-04-24 - Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1988-04-16 - Clifford Roach, cricketer (16 Tests early in WI cricket history), dies
1995-04-10 - Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies
1996-04-21 - A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
2006-04-12 - Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)

Events

1459-05-12 - Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
1498-05-20 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calcutta India
1542-05-06 - Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
1630-05-29 - Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
1876-05-25 - 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
1891-05-20 - History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1933-05-08 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
1937-05-30 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1939-05-03 - The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
1939-05-14 - Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1941-05-25 - 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1949-05-12 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)
1952-05-13 - Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
1952-05-13 - The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1955-05-02 - India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
1962-05-30 - 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1963-05-28 - Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
1965-05-11 - 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
1965-05-25 - India & Pakistan border fights
1965-05-28 - Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1967-05-06 - Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India
1971-05-09 - Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
1974-05-18 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1975-05-16 - India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975-05-19 - Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1985-05-11 - Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1992-05-01 - Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
1992-05-20 - India launches its 1st satellite independently
1992-05-22 - India launches its Agni rocket
1994-05-20 - Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994-05-21 - Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1997-05-06 - The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
1998-05-07 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1998-05-11 - India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device.
1998-05-13 - India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
1999-05-03 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
1999-05-21 - All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history
2002-05-03 - A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2006-05-09 - George Preca is canonised as the first Maltese saint in history.

Birthdays

1794-05-24 - William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)
1832-05-05 - H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States)
1886-05-25 - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1895-05-12 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22]
1895-05-22 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12]
1897-05-03 - V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1906-05-05 - Ursula Jeans, Simla India. actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon)
1906-05-29 - Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist (England Have My Bones)
1913-05-13 - Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
1913-05-19 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India
1916-05-05 - Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994)
1921-05-02 - Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
1923-05-28 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star (Patala Bhairavi)
1924-05-23 - V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45)
1926-05-31 - Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper (India in late 40's/early 50's)
1929-05-28 - Leslie Wight, cricketer (one Test WI v India 1953, scored 21)
1936-05-03 - Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnolde Dorsey], India, singer (EH Show)
1936-05-30 - Roy Harford, cricketer (brother of Noel NZ wicketkeeper v India 1968)
1941-05-24 - Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia)
1946-05-01 - Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service)
1955-05-02 - Ian Callen, cricketer (one Test Australia v India 1978, six wickets)

Deaths

1790-05-27 - Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89
1877-05-29 - John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
1969-05-03 - Zakir Hussain, 3rd President of India, (b. 1897)
1972-05-28 - Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireld/emperor (India 1936), dies at 77
1979-05-31 - Nigel Howard, cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies
1992-05-08 - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies
1993-05-19 - S W Sohoni, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
1996-05-17 - Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
1996-05-31 - Neela Sanjiva Reddy, president of India (1977-82), dies

Events

0763-06-15 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1607-06-30 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1621-06-03 - Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands" (NY)
1752-06-09 - French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India
1756-06-20 - 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756-06-20 - India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army
1769-06-04 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
1818-06-03 - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1860-06-30 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1866-06-11 - The Allahabad High Court (then Agra High Court) is established in India.
1882-06-06 - Cyclone in Arabian Sea (Bombay India) drowns 100,000
1897-06-12 - Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll)
1899-06-12 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.
1921-06-06 - Detroit Stars' Bill Gatewood pitches the 1st no-hitter in Negro League history, defeating the Cuban Stars 4-0
1926-06-29 - Carter Woodson wins Springarn Medal for research of Black history
1944-06-22 - Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn
1946-06-22 - Alec Bedser takes 7-49 v India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket
1947-06-03 - British viceroy of India lord Mountbatten visits Pakistan
1948-06-21 - Lord Mountbatten resigns as gov-gen of India
1950-06-08 - Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Field Marshal in Australian history.
1950-06-23 - Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1952-06-05 - Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
1955-06-07 - India premier Nehru visit USSR
1955-06-19 - Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1962-06-24 - Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1964-06-02 - Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1965-06-02 - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1966-06-24 - Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1967-06-09 - Boycott scores 246* v India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six
1968-06-03 - Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins
1969-06-25 - Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1972-06-23 - Hurricane Agnes is costliest natural disaster in American history
1974-06-24 - India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1979-06-01 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979-06-18 - Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset
1981-06-06 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
1983-06-25 - India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1984-06-06 - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1985-06-23 - Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1989-06-04 - Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1990-06-08 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991-06-03 - Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1992-06-23 - "Tin Bigha Day" protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh
1992-06-26 - India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh
1994-06-25 - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1999-06-06 - At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
2001-06-05 - Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2001-06-18 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
2002-06-24 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2003-06-05 - A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2004-06-06 - Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.

Birthdays

1608-06-19 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1795-06-13 - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian (History of Rome)
1832-06-10 - Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1856-06-30 - Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1876-06-11 - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
1892-06-28 - Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1894-06-23 - Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India (1936)
1895-06-03 - Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1896-06-18 - Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936)
1898-06-26 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (d. 1971)
1899-06-13 - Carlos Chavez, Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfonia India)
1902-06-04 - Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928)
1909-06-06 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
1917-06-27 - K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
1920-06-22 - Chandrasekhar Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52)
1921-06-28 - P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1930-06-05 - Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
1931-06-30 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1939-06-20 - R B Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in 60s)
1942-06-19 - Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1965-06-01 - India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1973-06-30 - Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1974-06-07 - Mahesh Bhupathi, India, tennis pro
1976-06-29 - Sandhya Chib, Miss Universe-India (1996)

Deaths

1631-06-07 - Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1699-06-22 - Josiah Child, English Governor of the East India Company (b. 1630)
1858-06-17 - Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1927-06-13 - Henry CK "Clan" Petty-Fitzmaurice, gov of India (1888-94), dies at 82
1950-06-17 - Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
1955-06-22 - Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
1969-06-24 - Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies
1970-06-07 - Edward M Forster, Brit writer (Maurice, passage to India), dies at 91
1974-06-17 - Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
1980-06-23 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (b. 1894)
1984-06-25 - Michel Foucault, philosoph (History of Sexuality), dies of AIDs at 57
1986-06-15 - K K Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), killed by motor-scooter
1991-06-14 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India), dies at 83
1996-06-01 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, president of India, dies at 83

Events

1497-07-08 - Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India
1806-07-10 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1858-07-28 - William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
1893-07-24 - For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
1909-07-16 - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1943-07-13 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany
1946-07-16 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1952-07-19 - Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952-07-19 - India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1959-07-15 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1959-07-27 - Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
1972-07-02 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1972-07-10 - Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973-07-07 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
1975-07-20 - India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship.
1976-07-18 - Nadia Comaneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1979-07-15 - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1979-07-17 - David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1981-07-16 - India performs nuclear Test
1982-07-09 - Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
1986-07-25 - Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1987-07-06 - 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
1990-07-27 - Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's
1990-07-30 - Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
1991-07-28 - Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
1994-07-03 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
1994-07-09 - 11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes)
1994-07-24 - Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India
1994-07-29 - India army kills 27 Moslem militants
2001-07-24 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
2002-07-21 - Telecom giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the largest such filing in United States history.
2002-07-27 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005-07-26 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2006-07-06 - The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
2006-07-11 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
2007-07-27 - Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

Birthdays

1682-07-10 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1855-07-30 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1920-07-16 - Anwar Hussain, cricketer (four Tests for Pakistan v India 1952-53)
1922-07-04 - Ghulam Ahmed, cricketer (off-spinner in 22 Tests for India in 1950's)
1927-07-26 - G S Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India)
1934-07-21 - Chandu Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67)
1939-07-06 - Man Mohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India)
1952-07-23 - Paul Hibbert, cricketer (one Test Aust v India 1977, scored 13 & 2)
1954-07-18 - Imtiaz Ali, cricketer (brother of Inshan One Test WI v India 1976)
1958-07-06 - Mark Benson, cricketer (played Test England v India 1986, 30 & 21)
1961-07-01 - Kalpana Chawla, Karnal India, astronaut (STS 87)
1970-07-07 - Min Patel, cricketer (in Mumbai England left-arm spinner v India 1996)
1972-07-08 - Saurav Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996)

Deaths

1895-07-19 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1941-07-02 - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29
1979-07-09 - Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer (2 Tests for India), dies
1980-07-18 - Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer (3 Tests for India 1932-34, 108 runs), dies
1987-07-22 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies
1988-07-23 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), dies

Events

1363-08-30 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1597-08-20 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1608-08-24 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1612-08-29 - Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
1639-08-22 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
1641-08-26 - West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola
1690-08-24 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1751-08-31 - English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India
1784-08-13 - English parliament accept India Act
1849-08-22 - The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice.
1857-08-24 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1858-08-02 - Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1919-08-13 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1928-08-30 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1942-08-09 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress
1942-08-23 - World War II: The last cavalry charge in history takes place at Izbushensky.
1944-08-19 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1946-08-08 - India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
1947-08-14 - India granted independence within British Commonwealth
1947-08-15 - India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947-08-17 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1950-08-15 - 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950-08-15 - Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1959-08-24 - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1964-08-20 - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1970-08-03 - Hurricane "Celia" becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history
1971-08-24 - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1973-08-28 - India & Pakistan sign POW accord
1976-08-21 - Al Bumbry hits 17th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1979-08-20 - India premier Charan Singh resigns
1980-08-17 - Azaria Chamberlain disappears, likely taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicised trial in Australian history.
1984-08-03 - Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
1985-08-17 - Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1987-08-02 - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1987-08-31 - South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1988-08-20 - 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1996-08-20 - India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1999-08-11 - Total solar eclipse in India-North -France (2m23s)
2003-08-11 - NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2004-08-15 - Bay of Plenty win Rugby Union's Ranfurly shield for the first time in the shield's 102 year history and after 28 unsuccessful challenges. They defeated Auckland. 33-26
2007-08-22 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

Birthdays

1569-08-31 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India
1752-08-27 - Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist (History of Mankind)
1798-08-21 - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)
1868-08-12 - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
1876-08-05 - Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
1892-08-02 - John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
1894-08-10 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1902-08-22 - Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex)
1923-08-18 - Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India (1947-8 Aust tour)
1923-08-29 - Hirulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder (Test for India 1952-53)
1928-08-04 - Udham Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64)
1933-08-06 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959)
1939-08-03 - A K Sen Gupta, cricketer (Test India v WI 1959 without distinction)
1944-08-20 - Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89)
1958-08-23 - Julio Franco, Atlanta Braves, oldest regular position player in MLB history

Deaths

1818-08-22 - Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85
1891-08-04 - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1950-08-08 - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies
1978-08-21 - Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs), dies
1995-08-31 - Beant Singh, PM of Punjab province of India, assassinated at 73
1999-08-10 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)

Events

1590-09-27 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1767-09-28 - Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1798-09-01 - England signs treaty with nizam of Hyderabad, India
1896-09-22 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1913-09-09 - Assn for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago
1915-09-08 - Assn of Negro Life & History founded
1915-09-09 - Assn for study of Negro Life & History forms by Carter G Woodson
1936-09-09 - Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history
1946-09-02 - Nehru forms govt in India
1956-09-02 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1960-09-02 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day.
1960-09-26 - Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1962-09-08 - Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
1963-09-06 - Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
1965-09-01 - India & Pakistan border fights
1965-09-06 - India invades West Pakistan
1965-09-22 - India & Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect
1967-09-04 - 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200
1979-09-04 - India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429
1979-09-20 - The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
1982-09-22 - Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
1983-09-24 - Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur
1984-09-28 - 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
1985-09-11 - Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
1985-09-25 - Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1986-09-07 - Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
1986-09-18 - David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
1986-09-19 - Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
1986-09-22 - India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
1988-09-11 - 108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in US Open history
1990-09-10 - 1st time in NY Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0
1992-09-12 - Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min)
1992-09-24 - Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
1992-09-27 - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
1993-09-30 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1996-09-16 - 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto
1999-09-23 - Qantas Flight 1 overruns the runway in Bangkok during a storm. While some passengers only received minor injuries, it is still the worst crash in Qantas's history to date.
2004-09-17 - Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
2004-09-21 - The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
2005-09-29 - Chicago White Sox clinch their first division title since 2000 and become just the 10th team in the history of baseball to be in first place on every day of the season
2008-09-10 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Birthdays

1707-09-07 - George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
1725-09-29 - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1725-09-29 - Robert Clive, founder (British empire in India)
1736-09-15 - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
1811-09-12 - James Hall, US geologist (Natural history of NY)
1819-09-07 - Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
1850-09-09 - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi
1872-09-10 - Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician
1888-09-05 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishan, president (India)/philosopher
1894-09-30 - Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician (Concise History of Mathematics)
1916-09-15 - Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1930-09-29 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
1936-09-25 - Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1942-09-29 - Rajinder Goel, cricketer (slow lefty who didn't play for India)
1954-09-12 - Russell G. Alexander, creator of Today In History v1.2
1967-09-05 - India Hicks, English model

Deaths

1644-09-04 - John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87
1844-09-27 - Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), dies
1856-09-24 - Henry, 1st viscount Hardinge of Lahore, gov-gen of India, dies
1920-09-16 - Daniel Andersson, Swedish poet/writer (Polar History), dies at 32
1955-09-16 - Leopold C M S Amery, Brit minister of Colonies (India), dies at 81
1981-09-09 - Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs & 0-13), dies
1992-09-14 - S A Banerjee, cricketer (1 Test for India 1948, no runs, 5 wkts), dies

Events

1737-10-07 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1737-10-11 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1773-10-14 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1876-10-31 - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.
1893-10-01 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1905-10-16 - The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1917-10-31 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history"
1921-10-16 - Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
1932-10-15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1940-10-29 - Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1942-10-16 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1947-10-26 - Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1950-10-26 - Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1952-10-16 - Pakistan's 1st Test starts, v India at Delhi
1952-10-18 - Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash
1952-10-25 - Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* v India
1952-10-26 - Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts v India
1959-10-23 - Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1962-10-10 - Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1962-10-20 - Chinese army lands in India
1964-10-03 - Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's history
1964-10-29 - Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1973-10-21 - Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1974-10-08 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
1978-10-16 - Test debut of Kapil Dev, India v Pakistan at Faisalabad
1979-10-17 - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1980-10-21 - Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
1986-10-02 - Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
1986-10-19 - Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1989-10-20 - Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
1991-10-07 - Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991-10-16 - Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
1991-10-20 - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die
1991-10-25 - Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs v India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah
1992-10-18 - Start of Zimbabwe's 1st Test match, v India at Harare
1992-10-20 - David Houghton gets Zimbabwe's 1st Test ton (121 v India, debut)
1997-10-04 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
1998-10-29 - Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
1999-10-29 - Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999 Orissa cyclone ever since.
2003-10-26 - The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

Birthdays

1542-10-14 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, 3rd Mogol emperor of India (1556-1605)
1542-10-15 - Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)
1643-10-14 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
1858-10-21 - Ramabai Dongre' Medhavi, India, social reformer
1869-10-02 - Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist
1880-10-08 - Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder (National-India Party)
1904-10-02 - Shi Lal Bahadur Shastri, India premier (1964-66)
1908-10-22 - John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly)
1910-10-19 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1920-10-27 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
1926-10-15 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality)
1927-10-18 - Ramesh Divecha, cricketer (eleven wickets for India in early 50's)
1928-10-18 - R H "Deepak" Shodhan, cricketer (century on Test debut for India)
1929-10-19 - Balbir Singh, India, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1948-56)
1930-10-02 - J M Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact)
1931-10-15 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India
1932-10-05 - Madhav Apte, cricketer (bro of Arvind 7 Tests for India, 1 century)
1932-10-26 - Chinadorai Deshmutu, India, field hockey player (1952)
1934-10-05 - David Smith, cricketer (England opening bowler v India 1961-62)
1934-10-10 - Sadashiv Patil, cricketer (pace bowler in Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1935-10-05 - Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper (England twice v India 1964)
1940-10-14 - Cliff Richards, [Harry Webb], Lucknow India, rock voclist (Suddenly)
1944-10-16 - Bob Cottam, cricketer (England fast-medium on 2 India/Pakistan tours)
1946-10-12 - Ashok Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78)
1946-10-15 - Victor Banerjee, Calcutta India, actor (A Passage to India)
1950-10-02 - Persis Khambatta, Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)
1954-10-20 - Suru Nayak, cricketer (two Tests for India v England 1982)
1971-10-16 - David Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996-)
1975-10-03 - India.Arie, American singer

Deaths

1605-10-15 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63
1627-10-28 - Djehangir/Jahangir, great mogol of India, dies
1971-10-11 - Chesty Puller, the most decorated Marine in history (b. 1898)
1980-10-14 - S N Banerjee, cricketer (one Test for India), dies
1983-10-18 - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer (55 Tests for India), dies
1984-10-11 - Khanderao M Rangnekar, cricketer (33 runs at 5 50 for India), dies
1984-10-31 - Indira Gandhi, PM of India, assassinated by 2 of her bodyguards
1993-10-09 - C R Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India), dies
2005-10-24 - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)

Events

1838-11-03 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839-11-25 - A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1865-11-11 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1935-11-25 - Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
1938-11-16 - K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1941-11-01 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
1945-11-13 - Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India
1945-11-28 - Aust Services draw second Victory Test Cricket v India at Calcutta
1949-11-26 - India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950-11-06 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1953-11-21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.
1954-11-01 - India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1955-11-20 - Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ
1956-11-01 - Formation of Kerala state in India.
1957-11-02 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1958-11-28 - Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, v India at Bombay
1966-11-24 - New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.
1974-11-07 - 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1974-11-26 - Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut v India
1978-11-19 - Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1982-11-12 - Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket v India, goes to 215
1983-11-15 - 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983-11-16 - Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose
1983-11-24 - Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI v India Bombay
1983-11-27 - Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
1984-11-03 - 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1987-11-25 - India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1988-11-30 - Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1989-11-29 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1991-11-02 - Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter & rallying to beat Weber State 55-49
1991-11-10 - South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day v India
1993-11-14 - Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history
1993-11-27 - India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12
1994-11-19 - Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1995-11-26 - New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
1998-11-09 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1999-11-27 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
2000-11-15 - A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people. New Jharkhand state came into existence in India.
2004-11-21 - The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.

Birthdays

1618-11-03 - Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)
1816-11-17 - August W Ambros, Austria musicologist (History of Music)
1827-11-30 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1831-11-08 - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India
1873-11-22 - Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India)
1886-11-02 - Philip Merivale, Rehutia India, actor (Nothing But Trouble)
1888-11-07 - Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1888-11-11 - Maulana Azad, 1st minister of education in independent India
1917-11-19 - Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1929-11-08 - Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1930-11-24 - C T Patankar, cricketer (kept wicket in one Test India v NZ 1955-56)
1935-11-27 - Prakash Bhandari, cricketer (3 Tests for India in mid-50's, 77 runs)
1937-11-18 - Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22)
1940-11-01 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1945-11-08 - Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1948-11-24 - Ashok Gandotra, cricketer (in Rio de Janiero Two Tests for India 1969)
1954-11-12 - Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979)
1972-11-09 - Laxmi Poruri, Guntur India, tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park)

Deaths

1773-11-22 - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48
1893-11-07 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37
1967-11-14 - Colonel C K Nayudu, cricketer (7 Tests for India in 30's), dies
1984-11-27 - Percy Norris, deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead
1985-11-19 - Lall Singh, cricketer (Test for India 1932), dies
1985-11-21 - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60), dies
1993-11-29 - JRD Tata, Indies industrialist (Air-India), dies at 89
2005-11-09 - K. R. Narayanan, President of India (b. 1921)

Events

1850-12-16 - History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton.
1861-12-09 - Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
1862-12-26 - The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39.
1872-12-26 - 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
1888-12-18 - Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Indian ruins of Mesa Verde.
1889-12-04 - Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1914-12-12 - The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
1943-12-30 - Subhash Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1946-12-23 - Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1947-12-26 - British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1948-12-19 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
1959-12-21 - 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
1963-12-01 - Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
1971-12-04 - The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
1971-12-25 - Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1978-12-28 - 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
1983-12-29 - Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* v WI
1984-12-29 - Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
1986-12-17 - Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1995-12-10 - Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1996-12-23 - 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1996-12-26 - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
2001-12-13 - the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
2002-12-23 - A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.
2004-12-26 - A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

Birthdays

1717-12-09 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
1779-12-18 - Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history")
1792-12-29 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian (History of Europe)
1796-12-27 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (d. 1869)
1809-12-24 - Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, Union brig-general/indian fighter
1853-12-06 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)
1860-12-18 - Edward Alexander MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
1861-12-25 - Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946)
1862-12-23 - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
1882-12-11 - Subramanya Bharathy, Indian poet (d. 1921)
1887-12-15 - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe)
1887-12-22 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
1898-12-02 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)
1909-12-20 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1910-12-04 - Amar Singh, cricketer (dashing Indian all-rounder of thirties)
1914-12-17 - Mushtaq Ali, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's)
1917-12-14 - Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg-spinner (West Indian of post-WWII years)
1918-12-14 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate
1918-12-23 - Kumar Pallana, Indian-born American actor
1919-12-25 - Naushad Ali, Indian music director (d. 2006)
1921-12-07 - Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader
1922-12-11 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
1922-12-28 - Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer (West Indian opening bat 1957)
1924-12-14 - Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
1925-12-24 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980)
1929-12-11 - S P "Fergie" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner)
1932-12-28 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
1933-12-02 - K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist
1933-12-21 - Jackie Hendriks, cricketer (West Indian wicket-keeper of 60's)
1934-12-11 - Salim Durani, cricketer (successful Indian batsman of 60's)
1935-12-08 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
1935-12-11 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
1937-12-03 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
1937-12-28 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
1940-12-12 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1942-12-29 - Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor
1945-12-06 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian filmmaker
1946-12-08 - Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress
1946-12-09 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1946-12-09 - Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1947-12-02 - Dhiraj Parsana, cricket pace bowler (Indian v WI 1978-79)
1949-12-29 - Syed Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer)
1950-12-12 - Rajnikanth, Indian actor
1952-12-16 - Joel Garner, cricketer (two-metre West Indian pace bowler 1977-87)
1952-12-28 - Arun Jaitley, Indian Politician
1954-12-11 - Sylvester Clarke, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler & brick-thrower)
1955-12-31 - Dawood Ibrahim, Indian crime boss
1957-12-10 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
1959-12-12 - Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener)
1959-12-24 - Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
1960-12-13 - Daggubati Venkatesh, Indian actor
1961-12-18 - Lalchand Rajput, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1985-86)
1962-12-14 - Bharat Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's)
1965-12-27 - Salman Khan, Indian actor
1966-12-19 - Rajesh Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993)
1967-12-22 - Roland Holder, cricketer (West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993-)
1968-12-12 - Laurie Williams, cricketer (West Indian ODI all-rounder v NZ 1996)
1968-12-15 - Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1969-12-11 - Vishwanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
1969-12-19 - Nayan Mongia, cricketer (Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- )
1971-12-18 - Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1972-12-17 - John Abraham, Indian actor
1974-12-25 - Nagma, Indian actress
1976-12-15 - Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1978-12-17 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
1980-12-01 - Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
1980-12-11 - Arya, Indian actor
1981-12-09 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1981-12-12 - Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
1982-12-10 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1985-12-06 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian Cricketer
1988-12-02 - Soniya Mehra, Indian Actress

Deaths

1706-12-28 - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
1890-12-29 - Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
1909-12-10 - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
1950-12-05 - Shri Aurobindo, Indian guru (b. 1872)
1950-12-15 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (b. 1875)
1951-12-05 - Abanindranath Tagore, Indian writer (b. 1871)
1953-12-10 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1956-12-06 - Dr. Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar, Indian Minister of Law and architect of The Constitution of India (b. 1891)
1961-12-06 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)
1965-12-02 - The Rajkumar of Vizianagram, cricketer (Indian Test capt 1936), dies
1966-12-31 - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies
1969-12-26 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67
1971-12-31 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919)
1979-12-03 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
1981-12-26 - Savithri, Indian actress (b. 1937)
1987-12-11 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
2000-12-23 - Noor Jehan, Indian singer and actress (b. 1926)
2001-12-01 - Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (b. 1909)
2001-12-10 - Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2004-12-11 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
2004-12-21 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
2004-12-26 - Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)
2004-12-26 - Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)
2004-12-26 - Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)
2004-12-26 - Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)