| Names |
ABDUL RAHIM
KHAN-i-KHANA |
| Date of Birth |
December 17, 1556 |
| Date of
Death |
1626 (Date not known) |
|
Identity |
Indian Poet of Mughal Empire times |
| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- His full name was Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim
Khan-i-Khana.
- He was one of the nine important ministers (dewan)
in court of King Akbar, also known as the Navaratnas.
- Rahim is known for his Hindi couplets and his books on
astrology.
- The village of Khankhana, which is named after him, is
located in the Nawanshahr district of the state of Punjab,
India.
- Apart from writing various dohas, Rahim translated
Babar's memoirs, Baburnama from Chagatai language to Persian
language, which was completed in AD 998 (1589–90).
- His command of Sanskrit was very good.
- He wrote two books on astrology, Kheta Kautukama and
Dwawishd Yogavali.
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| Name(s) |
Shaheed BHAGAT
SINGH |
| Date of
Birth |
September 27 or 28,
1907 – Jaranwala, Punjab, Undivided India. |
| Date of
Death |
March 23, 1931
– Lahore, Punjab, Undivided India. |
|
Identity |
Indian Freedom
Fighter and Revolutionry |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 17, 1928: He
conspired with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru,
Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad to kill Scott as and
by way of revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai owing to
police beatings. However, in a case of mistaken identity,
the plotters shot John P. Saunders, a police official, in
Lahore on this day.
- April 08, 1929: He,
accompanied by Batukeshwar Dutt, threw two bombs into the
Assembly chamber from its public gallery while it was in
session. The objective not to kill but to spread fear and
terror.
- June 12, 1928: He and
Batukeshwar were sentenced to life imprisonment for causing
explosions of a nature likely to endanger life, unlawfully
and maliciously.
- April 15, 1929: In 1929 the
HSRA had set up bomb factories in Lahore and Saharanpur. On
this day, the Lahore bomb factory was discovered by the
police, leading to the arrest of other members of HSRA,
including Sukhdev, Kishori Lal, and Jai Gopal.
- July 10, 1929: The trial
against Bhagat Singh, who was on hunger strike in jail, and
his associates began on this day. In addition to charging
them with the murder of Saunders, Singh and the other
prisoners were charged with plotting a conspiracy to murder
Scott, and waging a war against the King.
- September 13, 1929: While in jail
and on hunger strike, one of his associates, viz. Jatindra
Nath Das, died on this day after 63 days of hunger strike.
- October 05, 1929: He ended
his hunger strike after 116 days on the suggestion of his
father and other well wishers.
-
May 01, 1930: To speed up the slow trial, the Viceroy, Lord Irwin,
declared an emergency on this day,
and promulgated an ordinance setting up a special
tribunal composed of three high court judges for
this case.
- May 05, 1930: The trial
proceedings against him and 18 associates were started on
this day.
- June 20, 1930: The
Composition of the Special Tribunal was changed on
this day.
- July 02, 1930: A petition
was filed in the High Court challenging the Viceroy's
authority to shorten the customary process of determining
justice.
- September 30, 1930: The
trial ended on this day.
- October 07, 1930: On this
day, the tribunal delivered its judgement, where by
the participation of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru in
Saunder's murder was proven. They were sentenced to death by
hanging. Of the other accused, three were acquitted (Ajoy
Ghosh, Jatindra Nath Sanyal and Des Raj), Kundan Lal
received seven years' rigorous imprisonment, Prem Dutt
received five years of the same, and the remaining seven
(Kishori Lal, Mahabir Singh, Bijoy Kumar Sinha, Shiv Verma,
Gaya Prashad, Jai Dev and Kamalnath Tewari) were all
sentenced to transportation for life.
- February 14, 1931: After
the rejection of the appeal to the Privy Council, Congress
party president Madan Mohan Malviya filed a mercy appeal
before the Viceroy on this day.
-
March 24, 1931: Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were
sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy
case and ordered to be hanged on this day. Later, the
execution had been advanced by a day, and consequently all
of them were
hanged on 23 March 1931.
- 1968: A postage stamp was
issued in India commemorating the 61st birth anniversary of
Singh.
- September 28, 2007: The
Supreme Court of India established a museum to display
landmarks in the history of India's judicial system,
displaying records of some historic trials. The first
exhibition that was organised was the Trial of Bhagat Singh,
which opened on this day, on the centenary celebrations of
Singh's birth.
- August 15, 2008: An 18-foot
tall bronze statue of Bhagat Singh was installed in the
Parliament of India.
- 2012: A ₹5 coin
commemorating him was released for circulation.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was an Indian socialist considered to be one of the
most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence
movement, who sacrificed his life in his youth for the sake
of better and free India.
- He quickly rose through the ranks of the Hindustan
Republican Association (HRA) to become one of its main
leaders, eventually changing its name to the Hindustan
Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) in 1928.
- This organisation had prominent leaders, such as Ram
Prasad Bismil, Chandrashekhar Azad and Ashfaqulla Khan.
- Seeking revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the
hands of the police, Bhagat Singh was involved in the
assassination of British police officer John Saunders.
- Together with Batukeshwar Dutt, he succeeded to throw
two bombs and leaflets inside the Central Legislative
Assembly while shouting slogans of Inquilab Zindabad.
- Subsequently both Batukeshwar and Bhagat volunteered to
surrender and be arrested.
- While in jail, he gained widespread national support
when he underwent a 116 day fast in jail, demanding equal
rights for British and Indian political prisoners.
- He was convicted and subsequently hanged for his
participation in the murder, aged 23.
- Not quite convinced with Gandhi's philosophy of
non-violence, he joined the Young Revolutionary Movement.
- Henceforth, he began advocating the violent overthrow of
the British in India.
- He joined the Indian nationalist youth organisation
Naujawan Bharat Sabha (Youth Society of India) along with
his fellow revolutionaries, and became popular in the
organisation.
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Commemoration |
He is commemorated with a
large bronze statue in the Parliament of India, as well as a
range of other memorials. |
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| Name
/ Title |
Dr BHOGARAJU
PATTABHI SITARAMAYYA |
| Date of
Birth |
November 24, 1880 |
| Date of
Death |
December 17, 1959 |
| Identity |
Indian independence activist and political leader in the
state of Andhra Pradesh |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- November 28, 1923: He
established Andhra Bank in Machilipatnam.
- 1935: He is also the author
of The History of the Congress published in 1935 with an
introductory note given by Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
- 1942: During the Quit India
movement, he along with other Congress Working Committee
members was arrested and jailed in Ahmednagar fort in
Maharashtra.
- 1952: He was elected to
Rajya Sabha.
- 1952 to 1957: He was
Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
|
| General |
- During the course of his incarceration, he maintained a
detailed diary of day-to-day life during imprisonment, which
was published later as Feathers and Stones.
- His other popular publication was Gandhi and Gandhism.
- He served as a member in the Constituent Assembly.
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| Name(s) |
EKNATH EASWARAN |
| Date of
Birth |
December 17, 1910 |
| Date of
Death |
October 26, 1999 |
|
Identity |
An Indian Spiritual
Teacher |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- He also was an author of books on meditation and ways to
lead a fulfilling life, besides being a translator and
interpreter of Indian literature.
- In 1961 he founded the Blue Mountain Center of
Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California.
- Nilgiri Press published over two dozen books he
authored.
- He was influenced by Mohandas K. Gandhi, whom he met
when he was a young man.
- He developed a method of meditation – silent repetition
in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the
world's great religions – which later came to be known as
Passage Meditation.
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| Name(s) |
GOPALAN KASTURI |
| Date of
Birth |
December 17, 1924 |
| Date of
Death |
September 21, 2012 |
|
Identity |
Indian Journalist |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
He served as the Editor of
The Hindu from 1965 to 1991. Till date, he is the longest
serving editor of the newspaper. |
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| Name of
the event |
GOA |
| Date of
the event |
- December 18-19, 1961: A former Portuguese province;
the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India
existed for about 450 years until it was annexed by India in
1961 on this day.
- The 1961 Indian annexation of Goa (also referred to
as the Invasion of Goa, the Liberation of Goa by Indian
forces, and the Fall of Portuguese India), was an action
by India's armed forces that ended the rule of Portugal
in its exclaves in India on this day.
- The armed action, codenamed Operation Vijay by the
Indian government, involved air, sea and land strikes
for over 36 hours (Dec 18-19, 1961), and was a decisive victory for India,
ending 451 years of Portuguese overseas provincial
governance in Goa.
- Twenty two Indians and thirty Portuguese were killed
in the fighting.
- The brief conflict drew a mixture of worldwide
praise as well as condemnation.
- In India, the action was seen as a liberation of
historically Indian territory, while Portugal viewed it
as an aggression against national soil and its
citizens.
- May 30, 1987: Goa became the 25th State of India
on this day.
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- Indian state located in the South western region
of India.
- It is bounded by the state of Maharashtra
to the north, and by Karnataka to the east
and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its
western coast.
- It is India's smallest state by area
and the fourth smallest by population.
- Goa is one of India's richest states
with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the
country.
- Panaji is the state's capital, while
Vasco da Gama is the largest city.
- Goa is visited by large numbers of international
and domestic tourists each year for its beaches,
places of worship and world heritage architecture.
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SIMLA AGREEMENT |
| Date(s) of
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- July 02, 1972 -
The Simla Agreement was signed between India and
Pakistan on this day in Simla, India.
- August 03, 1972 - On this day, the
Indian Parliament approved the draft Simla Agreement signed
by and between India and Pakistan on the 2nd July, 1972. So
this agreement became effective from this day.
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December 17, 1971: The agreement converted the cease-fire line of
this day into the Line
of Control (LOC) between India and Pakistan and
it was agreed that "neither side shall seek to
alter it unilaterally, irrespective of mutual
differences and legal interpretations".
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Description |
- It followed from the Bangladesh Liberation war
in 1971 that led to the independence of Bangladesh.
- The treaty was signed in Simla, India, by
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the President of Pakistan, and
Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India.
- The agreement also paved the way for diplomatic
recognition of Bangladesh by Pakistan.
- Few major outcomes of the Simla
Agreement are:
- Both countries will "settle their
differences by peaceful means through bilateral
negotiations".
- The agreement converted the cease-fire line of
December 17, 1971 into the Line
of Control (LOC) between India and Pakistan and
it was agreed that "neither side shall seek to
alter it unilaterally, irrespective of mutual
differences and legal interpretations".
- The agreement has not prevented the relationship between
the two countries from deteriorating to the point of armed
conflict, most recently in the Kargil War
of 1999.
- In Operation Meghdoot of 1984 India seized all
of the inhospitable Siachen Glacier region where
the frontier had not been clearly defined in the agreement
(possibly as the area was thought too barren to be
controversial).
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| Names |
JOHN ABRAHAM |
| Date of Birth |
December 17, 1972 |
|
Identity |
Indian film actor, producer, former model and a
bodybuilder. |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2003: He made his film
debut with Jism, which earned him a Filmfare Best Debut
Award nomination.
- 2004: He registered his
first commercial success in Dhoom.
- 2006: He received two
Filmfare Award nominations, for his negative roles in Dhoom,
and in Zinda.
- 2012: He produced his
first film Vicky Donor, which was a critical and commercial
success, and earned him a National Film Award for Best
Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.
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| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- Initially, he did modelling for numerous advertisements
and companies.
- He is the co-owner of the Indian Super League football
team NorthEast United FC.
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| Name
/ Title |
Mohammad
AZHARUDDIN |
| Date of
Birth |
February 08, 1963 |
| Identity |
Indian Former Cricketer & Politician |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 30, 1984: He made
his test match debut on this day; against England.
- January 20, 1985: He made
his ODI match debut on this day; against England.
- February 01, 1985: On this
day, he set a record, when he hit the third consecutive
century in the first three test matches played by him. This
feat was achieved while playing against England at Kanpur in
India.
- 1986: He received the
Arjuna Award.
- December 17, 1988: In a one
day international cricket match at Baroda against New
Zealand on this day, he scored the fastest Indian century in
just 62 balls.
- 1991: He was named Wisden
Cricketer of the Year.
- March 02, 2000: He played
his last test match on this day; against South Africa.
- August 03, 2000: He played
his last ODI match on this day; against Pakistan.
- December 05, 2000: He was
implicated in a match-fixing scandal in 2000, and was banned
for life by the BCCI.
- February 19, 2009: On this
day, he formally joined the Indian National Congress
political party.
- May 16, 2009: He became the
member of Parliament on this day.
- November 08, 2012: The
Andhra Pradesh High Court lifted the ban, describing it as
"unsustainable".
- May 16, 2014: He ceased to
be the member of Parliament on this day.
- September 02, 2014: On this
day, M.S. Dhoni broke the record of Azharuddin for leading
the team to 90 ODI victories.
- May 13, 2016: Released on
this day was a Bollywood film Azhar, directed by Tony
D'Souza, based on his life.
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- He was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
- He was an accomplished batsman and captained the
Indian cricket team for much of the 1990s.
- He led the Indian team in 47 test matches and 174 ODIs.
- A member of the Indian National Congress, Azharuddin was
an M.P from the Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh.
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| Name(s) |
MOHAMMAD
HIDAYATULLAH |
| Date of
Birth |
December 17, 1905 |
| Date of
Death |
September 18, 1992 |
|
Identity |
11th Chief Justice
of India and 6th Vice-President of India |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- July 19, 1930: He enrolled as an
advocate of the High Court of Central Provinces and Berar at
Nagpur on this day.
- December 12, 1942: He
was appointed Government Pleader in the High Court at
Nagpur.
- August 02, 1943: He became
the Advocate General of Central Provinces and Berar (now
Madhya Pradesh) and continued to hold the said post till he
was appointed as an Additional Judge of that High Court in
1946. He had the distinction of being the
youngest Advocate General of an Indian state,
Madhya Pradesh.
- June 24, 1946: He was
appointed as Additional Judge of that High Court of Central
Provinces and Berar.
- September 13, 1946: He was
appointed as permanent judge of said High Court where he
served until being elevated to Chief Justice of the Nagpur
High Court in 1954.
- December 03, 1954: He became the
youngest Chief Justice of a High Court.
- November 1956: He was then
appointed as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- December 01, 1958: He was
elevated as a justice to the Supreme Court of India. In his
time he was the youngest judge of the Supreme
Court of India.
- February 28, 1968: Took
over as the 11th Chief Justice of India. First
Muslim Chief Justice of India.
- July 20, 1969: Took over as
Acting President of India.
- August 24, 1969: Retired as
Acting President of India.
- December 16, 1970: Retired
as the 11th Chief Justice of India.
- August 31, 1979: Took over as
Vice-President of India.
- October 06, 1982: Took over
as Acting President of India, for the second time.
- October 31, 1982:
Relinquished his office of the Acting President of India.
- August 30, 1984: Retired as
the Vice-President of India.
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Other Events &
Developments |
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eminent jurist, scholar, educationist, author and linguist. |
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Awards & Accolades |
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1946
- Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Sash, 1970
- Medallion and Plaque of Merit Philconsa, Manila, 1970
- Knight of Mark Twain, 1971
- ...... and many others.
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| Name(s) |
SAINT MOTHER TERESA
(Her birth name is:
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu). |
| Date of
Birth |
August 26, 1910 |
| Date of
Death |
September 05, 1997 |
|
Identity |
Albanian-born Indian Roman
Catholic nun (Akin to
Bhagat Puran Singh of
Pingalwara of Punjab, India). |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- August 15, 1928: On this
day, she decided to commit herself to religious activities,
and soon thereafter she left her home and started
preparations to become a missionary.
- January 06, 1929: She arrived in India
and began her new missionary work in Darjeeling, near the
Himalayan mountains, where she learnt Bengali and taught at
St. Teresa's School, a schoolhouse close to her convent.
- May 24, 1931: She took her
first religious vows as a nun on this day. At that time she
opted for the name Teresa.
- May 14, 1937: She took her
solemn vows on this day.
- 1943: The Bengal
famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city
of Calcutta.
- August 1946: The outbreak
of Hindu/Muslim violence plunged the city
into despair and horror.
- September 10, 1946: On this
day, she as if got an order from the God that she must
leave the convent and help the poor while living
among them. This was the day when Sister Teresa in
fact became Mother Teresa.
- October 07, 1950: She received
the permission of the Vatican to start the Mission
of Charity in order to care for "the hungry, the
naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers,
all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for
throughout society, people that have become a burden to the
society and are shunned by everyone."
- 1952: She opened the first
Home for the Dying in space made available by the city
administration. With the help of Indian officials she
converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home
for the Dying, a free hospice for the poor. So she created
facilities to ensure that those who lived like animals die
like angels—loved and wanted.
- 1955: She opened the
Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home
of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless
youth.
- October 17, 1979: She received the
Nobel Peace Prize. She asked that the Nobel prize
money of $192,000 be given to the poor in India.
- January 25, 1980: She was
conferred India's highest civilian award, BHARAT
RATNA, by the Govt. of India.
- 1992: Her authorised
biography was written by Indian civil
servant Navin Chawla and published in 1992.
- 1996: By this year, she was
operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries.
Over the years, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity grew
from twelve to thousands serving the "poorest of the
poor" in 450 centres around the
world.
- April 1996: She fell and
broke her collar bone. Thereafter, her health was gradually
on the decline.
-
November 16, 1996: She received
honorary US citizenship on this day.
- March 13, 1997: She stepped
down from the head of Missionaries of Charity.
- September 05, 1997: She died on
this day. At the time of her death, her Missionaries of
Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated
brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123
countries. These included hospices and homes for people with
HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens,
children's and family counselling programmes, personal
helpers, orphanages and schools. The Missionaries of Charity
were also aided by co-workers, who numbered over 1 million
by the 1990s.
- October 19, 2003: Her
beatification by Pope John Paul II on this day after her
death gave her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta".
- December 17, 2015: The Vatican
confirmed that Pope Francis recognised a second miracle
attributed to her involving the healing of a Brazilian man
with multiple brain tumours.
- September 04, 2016: On this
day, she was canonised by the Pope at the Vatican. Thereafter she will be known
as Saint Mother Tereza.
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PRASANTA CHANDRA
MAHALANOBIS |
| Date of
Birth |
June 29, 1893
– Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Date of
death |
June 28, 1972
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
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Identity |
Indian scientist
and applied statistician |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 17, 1931:
He founded the Indian Statistical
Institute at Calcutta.
- 1944:
He received Weldon Medal from Oxford
University.
- 1945:
Fellow of the Royal Society, London.
- 1950:
He became President of Indian
Science Congress.
- 1951:
He became Fellow of the Econometric
Society, U.S.A.
- 1952:
He became Fellow of the Pakistan
Statistical Association.
- 1954:
He became Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Statistical Society, U.K.
- 1957:
He received the Sir Deviprasad
Sarvadhikari Gold Medal.
- 1958:
Foreign member of the Soviet Academy
of Sciences.
- 1959:
He became Honorary Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge.
- 1961:
Fellow of the American Statistical
Association.
- 1961: He
received the Durgaprasad Khaitan
Gold Medal.
- 1968:
He was honoured by the Govt
of India with Padma Vibhushan
Award.
- 1968:
He received the Srinivasa Ramanujam
Gold Medal.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He is best remembered for the
Mahalanaobis Distance,
a statistical measure.
- He made pioneering studies in
anthropometry in India.
- He also started a new journal in
statistics called Sankhya.
- He established a division within
the ISI called the National Sample
Survey (NSS). The NSS grew quickly
into an agency noted for its use of
continuing sample surveys for the
collection of socioeconomic and
demographic data that covered the
whole country. This division, along
with Mahalanobis, played such an
incredibly vital role in the
creation of the second five-year
economic plan in India that the
government took over NSS and now it
functions as a necessary part of the
Ministry of Planning.
- He had over 200 published
scientific articles along with many
non-technical articles in Bengali
and English.
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Commemorations |
His birth anniversary is celebrated as “NATIONAL
STATISTICAL DAY" |
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| Names |
RAJENDRA (Nath)
LAHIRI |
| Date of
Birth |
June 23, 1901–
Lahiri Mohanpur, Distt. Pabna, Bengal, India (now in Bangladesh) |
| Date of
Death |
December 17, 1927
– Gonda Distt. Jail, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
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Identity |
Indian
Revolutionary Freedom Fighter |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- August 09, 1925 - Participated in the Kakori train robbery of
of this day planned and executed by
Ram Prasad Bismil. He was also tried in this
case along with several other revolutionaries.
- December 17, 1927 - He was found guilty after a long trial and was
sentenced to death and was hanged in the Gonda
district jail on this day, two days before the
scheduled date.
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| Other Developments / Events |
- He participated in various revolutionary activities of
the Hindustan Republican Association aimed
at ousting the British from India.
- Participated in the Dakshineswar Bomb Case and
absconded. He was later arrested and tried and sent to
jail for 10 years rigorous imprisonment.
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| Names |
RITESH DESHMUKH |
| Date of Birth |
December 17, 1978 |
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Identity |
Indian architect, film actor and producer active in
Indian films. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2003: He debuted with K.
Vijaya Bhaskar's Tujhe Meri Kasam.
- 2004: He achieved huge
popularity, when he appeared in the commercially successful
comedy Masti and the critically acclaimed Bardaasht.
- January 2013: Riteish made
his debut as an film producer with the Marathi success Balak
Palak, directed by Ravi Jadhav.
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| Special Achievements
/ Events |
- He is the son of the politician Vilasrao Deshmukh and
Vaishali Deshmukh.
- His work in Masti was nominated for several
awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting
Actor category.
- Since then, he has starred in many commercially
successful films.
- He has thus has established a successful career in Hindi
Cinema.
- The following year he made his acting debut in Marathi
cinema with the action film Lai Bhaari.
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| Name(s) |
SHIVARAM HARI
RAJGURU |
| Date of
Birth |
August 24, 1908
– Rajgurunagar, Maharashtra, India. |
| Date of
Death |
March 23, 1931 |
|
Identity |
Revolutionary of the Indian
Independence Movement. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- December 17, 1928: Bhagat
Singh
conspired with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru,
Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad to kill Scott as and
by way of revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai owing to
police beatings. However, in a case of mistaken identity,
the plotters shot John P. Saunders, a police official, in
Lahore on this day.
- April 08, 1929 - After the Central
Assembly Hall bombings in New Delhi on this day, Shivaram
and his associates were arrested and convicted of their
crime, facing the death sentence as verdict.
- May 01, 1930 - To speed up the slow
trial, the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, declared an emergency on on
this day, and promulgated an ordinance setting up a special
tribunal composed of three high court judges for this case.
- March 23, 1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru
and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy
case and ordered to be hanged on 24 March 1931.
Later, the execution had been advanced to 23 March 1931, and
consequently Shivaram was hanged on 23 March 1931 in Lahore
jail with his fellow comrades Sukhdev and Bhagat Singh.
- March 24, 1931 - This was the original
date of his execution as per the verdict, but later the date
was advanced by one day.
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Developments |
- He was a member of the great
martyr triad of the twentieth
century, comprising himself and
Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Shaheed
Sukhdev Thapar, who were involved in
the assassination of British Police
Officer, J.P. Saunders, in 1928 as
and by way of a revenge to the death
of veteran leader, Lala Lajpat Rai
owing to excessive police beating in
the Conspiracy case.
- He was a member of the Hindustan
Socialist Republican Army, who
wanted India to be freed from
British rule by any means necessary.
- He did not endorse the gentle
ways of Mahatma Gandhi for fighting
the British Raj.
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SAROSH HOMI (S.H.)
KAPADIA |
| Date of
Birth |
September 29, 1947
- born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. |
| Date of
Death |
January 04, 2016 |
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Identity |
Indian lawyer,
judge; 38th Chief Justice of India. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- September 10, 1974: He joined as
an advocate in the Bombay High Court on this day.
- October 08, 1991: He was
appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on
this day.
- March 23, 1993: He was appointed
as a permanent judge.
- August 05, 2003: He became the Chief
Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
- December 17, 2003: He
retired as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
- December 18, 2003: He was
appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.
- April 30, 2005: He
delivered a landmark judgement relating to succession of
property in which he ruled out the possibility of conducting
the DNA test.
- May 12, 2010: He was sworn in as
the Chief Justice of India by the then President Pratibha
Patil.
- September 28, 2012: He
retired from the office of the Chief Justice of India.
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Developments |
- He started his career as a class IV employee.
- He later became a law clerk in a lawyer's office in
Mumbai and later went on to work with Feroze Damania who was
a highly respected "firebrand" labour lawyer.
- His famous quotes:
- "I am proud to be an Indian. India is the only
country where a member of the minority Parsi community
with a population of 1,67,000, like myself, can aspire
to attain the post of the Chief Justice of India. These
things do not happen in our neighbouring countries."
Chief Justice Kapadia speaking at the Independence Day
celebrations in the Supreme Court.
- "I come from a poor family. I started my career as a
class IV employee and the only asset I possess is
integrity"
- "Right to life, we have said, includes environmental
protection, right to live with dignity. Now we have
included right to sleep, where are we going? It is not a
criticism. Is it capable of being enforced? When you
expand the right, the judge must explore the
enforceability." Chief Justice Kapadia during a lecture
on "Jurisprudence of Constitutional Structure".
- "A day might come when the rule of law will stand
reduced to a rope of sand." Justice Kapadia reacting to
a flood of Public Interest Litigations (PIL) being filed
in the Supreme Court against corruption and non
performing government authorities.
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| Names |
SUKHDEV THAPAR |
| Date of Birth |
May 15, 1907
- Ludhiana, Punjab, India |
| Date of
Death |
March 23, 1931
- Lahore, Punjab, Undivided India. |
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Identity |
Indian Activist and Revolutionary - Struggle for freedom |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1928: He was the associate of Bhagat Singh and
Shivaram Rajguru, who were involved in the
assassination of British Police Officer, J.P.
Saunders, in 1928 as and by way of a revenge
to the death of veteran leader, Lala Lajpat Rai
owing to excessive police beating in the Conspiracy
case.
- December 17, 1928: Bhagat
Singh
conspired with revolutionaries like Shivaram Rajguru,
Sukhdev Thapar, and Chandrashekhar Azad to kill Scott as and
by way of revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai owing to
police beatings. However, in a case of mistaken identity,
the plotters shot John P. Saunders, a police official, in
Lahore on this day.
- 1929: He
took active part in several revolutionary
activities like the 'Prison hunger strike'.
- April 08, 1929: After the
Central Assembly Hall bombings in New Delhi on this day, Sukhdev and his associatess were arrested and convicted of their crime,
facing the death sentence as verdict.
- May 01, 1930: To speed up the slow trial, the Viceroy, Lord Irwin,
declared an emergency on this day,
and promulgated an ordinance setting up a special
tribunal composed of three high court judges for
this case.
-
March 24, 1931: Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were
sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy
case and ordered to be hanged on this day. Later, the
execution had been advanced by a day, and consequently Sukhdev was
hanged on 23 March 1931 in Lahore jail with his
fellow comrades Rajguru and Bhagat Singh.
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/ Events |
- He played a major role in the India's struggle
for Independence.
- He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist
Republican Association (HSRA), and organized
revolutionary cells in Punjab and other areas of North
India.
- He along with other renowned revolutionaries started the
'Naujawan Bharat Sabha' at Lahore for
gearing the youth for the struggle for independence and
putting an end to communalism.
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| Name(s) |
SUSHILKUMAR
Sambhajirao SHINDE |
| Date of
Birth |
September 04, 1941
- Sholapur, Maharashtra, India. |
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Identity |
Indian Politician |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- July 31, 2012:
- Became Minister for Home Affairs in Manmohan Singh
Government.
- May 26, 2014:
- He relinquished his office of the Home Minister of
India.
- January 30, 2006:
- He took over as Minister for Power.
- July 31, 2012:
- He relinquished his office as Minister for Power.
- November 04, 2004:
- He tookover as Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
- January 29, 2006:
- He relinquished his office of the Governor of Andhra
Pradesh.
- January 18, 2003:
- Took over as Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- November 04, 2004:
- Relinquished his office of the Chief Minister of
Maharashtra.
- March 20, 2006:
- He was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha for
second time from Maharashtra on this day.
- December 17, 2012:
- He came under intense criticism by the Indian media
and the people in general for addressing Jamaat-ud-Dawa
chief and an alleged conspirator for Mumbai Terror
Attacks Hafiz Muhammad Saeed using honorifics like Mr
and Shri on this day.
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Developments |
- He was the Minister of Home Affairs in the Manmohan
Singh government, and the Leader of the house in Lok Sabha
until May 26, 2014.
- He previously served as the Chief Minister of the state
of Maharashtra during 18 January 2003 to October 2004.
- He often preferred to use the newly coined term "Hindu
Terrorism" mainly to extract political mileage.
- His tenure as Home Minister has been full of
controversies.
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| Names |
SYED MUSHTAQ ALI |
| Date of
Birth |
December 17, 1914 |
| Date of
Death |
June 18, 2005 |
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Profession / Traits / Activities |
Former Indian
cricketer |
| Developments / Events |
- He was an aggressive Test batsman.
- Ali holds the distinction of scoring the first
Test century by any Indian overseas, when he hit a
ton for the team in 1936 at Manchester in England.
- A Wisden Special Award winner, he
scored four first class hundreds in the 1936 tour.
- He was an opening or middle order right-hand batsman and
a slow left-arm bowler.
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| Name(s) |
WAHENGBAM NIPAMACHA
SINGH |
| Date of
Birth |
December 17, 1930 |
| Date of
Death |
July 17, 2012 |
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Identity |
Former chief
Minister of the northeastern India state of Manipur. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- In 1997, he started the
Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP).
- Though he won the 2000
election for the second time, he was
removed the very next year when
President’s rule was declared in the
state.
- Subsequently le left the party
and formed the Manipur National
Conference (MNC) in 2002.
- He lost his seat in the 2002
Assembly election.
- In 2008, he belonged to the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- The MSCP later merged with the
Congress in 2014.
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