Indian scientist
and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from
2002 to 2007.
Date-wise Events / Works
July 25, 2002:
Became President of India.
September 03, 2015:
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road is one of the roads in New
Delhi's Lutyen's Bunglow Zone in India. It was known as
Aurangzeb road. It was previously called
Aurangzeb Road and on this day it was renamed
to Dr. APJ Adbul Kalam Road by NDMC.
September 04, 2015:
The Odisha government on this day announced to
rename the Wheeler Island as Abdul Kalam Island.
The Wheeler Island is located approximately 10
kilometres off the Odisha coast on the Bay of Bengal.
The Island, which is about 2 kilometres in length and
390 acres, is considered as country's most
advanced missile testing site. The missiles
which were launched from the Wheeler Island include
Akash, Agni, Astra, BrahMos, Nirbhay, Prahaar, Prithvi,
Shaurya and Advanced Air Defence, and Prithvi Air
Defence.
July 27, 2015:
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated his memorial at Pei
Karumbu in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu on this day. Mr Modi unveiled a
statue of Dr. Kalam and hoisted the National flag at the
memorial.
Mr.
Modi flagged off Kalam Sandesh Vahini, an exhibition bus
which will travel across the country and reach Rashtrapati
Bhavan on 15th of October, which marks the birth anniversary
of the former President.
Mr. Modi also flagged off a new
express train connecting the pilgrimage towns of Rameswaram
and Ayodhya and released the Green Rameswaram Project
initiated by the Kanyakumari-based Vivekananda Kendra.
Our correspondent reports that the majestic memorial
for the missile man Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has been designed
and built by the Defence Research and Development
Organization.
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A true and complete
Indian.
He is known as the
Missile Man of India.
He completed his Aerospace
Engineering at Madras Institute of
Technology (MIT), Chennai, Tamil
Nadu, India.Then he worked a
Aerospace engineer at Defence
Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space
Research Organisation(ISRO).
He made significant contribution
to development of ballistic
missiles, launch
vehicles technology and India’s
Pokhran-II nuclear tests in
1998.
He was the honorary fellow of
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore and Chancellor of the
Indian Institute of Space Scence and
Technology, Thiruvananthapuram.
He advocated plans to develop
India into a developed
nation by 2020 in his book
India 2020.
He is known for his
motivational speeches and
interaction with the student
community in India.
He launched his mission for the
youth of the nation in 2011 called
the What Can I Give Movement
with a central theme to
defeat corruption in India.
Krishan Nair
(Better known by his stage name: JAYAN)
Date of
Birth
July 25, 1939
Date of
Death
November 16, 1980
Identity
Indian film actor,
naval officer, stunt performer and cultural icon of the 1970s.
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He has starred in over
120 Malayalam films.
He was primarily an
action star and was
particularly famous for his
macho image and unique
style.
By the late 1970s, he became the
most popular lead actor and bankable
star of Malayalam cinema and has
been acclaimed as the first action
hero of Malayalam cinema.
Jayan was a Master Chief Petty
Officer in the Indian Navy, before
he came to films and rose to fame as
an actor in a very short time,
appearing as an action hero in
numerous films during the 1970s.
British hunter and
tracker-turned-conservationist, author and naturalist,
famous for hunting a large number of man-eating tigers and leopards
in India.
Date-wise Events / Works
He wrote a number of books
on animal conservation.
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He was a legendary.
He was a colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently
called upon by the government to kill man-eating tigers and leopards
that were preying on people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal
and Kumaon regions.
Corbett was also an avid photographer. Later on in life, he played a
key role in creating a national reserve for the endangered Bengal
tiger by using his influence to persuade the provincial government
to establish it.
Awards
and Accolades
He was made a Companion of the Order of
the Indian Empire in the King's 1946
Birthday Honours.
Commemorations
In 1957 the national park was renamed
Jim Corbett National Park in his honour.
May 19, 1913 (District
Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh, India)
Date of
Death
June 01, 1996 (Bangalore,
Karnataka, India)
Profession / Traits / Activities
Politics; 6th President of India
(1977 - 1982)
Date-wise Events /
Works
June 08, 1935 - Shri Sanjiva Reddy
married Shrimati Nagarathnamma and they had one son and
three daughters.
March 17, 1967 - He was elected Speaker
of the Lok Sabha, an office that won him unprecedented
acclaim and admiration.
July 19, 1969 - Shri Reddy resigned the
Speakership of the Lok Sabha to contest the Presidential
election.
May 01, 1975 - He entered active
politics again by addressing a public meeting at Hyderabad
along with Shri Jayaprakash Narain.
March 26, 1977 - Shri Reddy was
unanimously elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
July 13, 1977 - He relinquished this
office on this day to file his nomination for the
Presidentship of the Indian Union.
July 21, 1977 - After being unanimously
sponsored as the consensus candidate for the Presidentship
by all political parties, a reare even in recent political
history, he was declared elected unopposed on this day.
July 25, 1977 -
He was sworn in as the sixth President of India on this day.
1989 -
He had authored a book, Without
Fear or Favour : Reminiscences and Reflections of a President,
published in 1989.
Special Achievements
/ Events
First and two time Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Two time
Speaker of the Lok Sabha
and
Union Minister.
In 1938, he was elected Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh
Provincial Congress Committee and he held that office for 10
years.
During the
Quit India Movement,
he was
imprisoned
and was mostly in jail between 1940 to 1945.
He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1946
and became the
Secretary of the Madras Congress Legislature Party.
He was also a
Member of the Indian Constituent Assembly
which framed the Constitution of India.
In 1951 he was elected
President of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee.
He was sworn in as the sixth President of India on
25 July, 1977.
During his term of office, he worked with three
governments under Prime Ministers
Morarji Desai,
Charan Singh
and
Indira Gandhi.
He died of pneumonia in Bangalore in 1996 at the age of 83.
February 14, 1981 - She and her gang
gunned down 22 high caste Thakurs at Benmail village in
Uttar Pradesh as and by way of her gang rape earlier. This
event came to be known as Behmai massacre.
July 25, 2001 - She was gunned down on
this day just in front of her house after she returned from
the Parliament.
August 14, 2014 - The court sentenced
Sher Singh Rana, the main accused for her murder, as and by
way of a revenge for the Behmai massacre, to a life in
prison and a fine.
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Popularly known as "The
Bandit Queen".
She evaded capture for two years
after the massacre, before she and
her few surviving gang-members
surrendered in 1983.
She was charged with forty-eight
crimes, including multiple murders,
plunder, arson and kidnapping for
ransom.
After eleven years pending
trial, the state government headed
by Mulayam Singh Yadav of the
Samajwadi Party withdrew all charges
against her, and Phoolan was
released in 1994.
She then stood for election to
parliament as a candidate of the
Samajwadi Party and was
twice elected to the Lok Sabha
as the member for Mirzapur.
Indian Politician
and the 13th President of India.
Date-wise Events / Works
July 24, 1969: He became
the Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) on this day.
January 1980: He became the
Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha) on this day.
January 05, 1982: He became
the Minister of Finance, Govt of India, on this day.
1984: He was rated as the
best Finance Minister in the
World according to a survey
of Euromoney magazine.
December 31, 1984: He
retired as the Leader of the House (Rajya Sabha) on this
day.
December 31, 1984: He
retired as the Minister of Finance, Govt of India, on this
day.
June 24, 1991: He became
the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission on this day.
February 10, 1995: He
became the Minister of External Affairs, Govt of India, on
this day.
May 15, 1996: He retired as
the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission on this day.
May 16, 1996: He retired as
the Minister of External Affairs, Govt of India, on this
day.
May 10, 2004: He became the
Member of Lok Sabha for Jangipur on this day.
May 10, 2004: He retired as
the Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) on this day.
May 22, 2004: He became the
Minister of Defence, Govt of India, on this day.
May 22, 2004: He became the
Leader of the House (Lok Sabha) on this day.
October 24, 2006: He became
the Minister of External Affairs, Govt of India, on this
day.
October 27, 2006: He
retired as the Minister of Defence, Govt of India, on this
day.
2008: Awarded PADMA
VIBHUSHAN by the Govt. of
India.
May 22, 2009: He retired as
the Minister of External Affairs, Govt of India, on this
day.
2010: He was awarded "Finance
Minister of the Year for Asia"
by Emerging Markets, the daily
newspaper of record for the World
Bank and the IMF.
December 2010: The Banker
recognised him as the "Finance
Minister of the Year".
June 26, 2012: He retired
as the Leader of the House (Lok Sabha) on this day.
June 26, 2012: He retired
as the Member of Lok Sabha for Jangipur on this day.
July 25, 2012 - He became the 13th President
of India on this day.
March 19, 2017: He
addressed the closing ceremony of International Conference
on Buddhism in the 21st century at Rajgir, Nalanda in Bihar,
India. Over 1,000 delegates from 35 countries, including Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Singapore and Indonesia, participated in the
3-day conference that started on March 17, inaugurated by
Dalai Lama.
July 25, 2017: He
reliquished his office of the President of India in favour
of the new President, viz. Ram Nath Kovind, who was sworn in
minutes thereafter.
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He was a senior leader
of the Indian National Congress
and occupied several ministerial
portfolios in the Government of
India.
Soon he became one of Indira
Gandhi's most trusted
lieutenants, and a minister in her
cabinet by 1973.
During the controversial
Internal Emergency of
1975–77, he was accused of
committing gross excesses.
He was sidelined
from the Congress during the
premiership of Rajiv Gandhi.
His political career revived
when Prime Minister P. V.
Narasimha Rao appointed him
Planning Commission head
in 1991 and Foreign Minister
in 1995.
He was the principal architect
of Sonia Gandhi's
(Rajiv's widow) ascension to the
party's presidency in 1998.
When the Congress-led United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) came into
power in 2004, Mukherjee won
a Lok Sabha seat for the
first time.
From then until his resignation
in 2012, Mukherjee was
practically number-two in
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's government.
After securing the UPA's
nomination for the country's
Presidency, in July 2012 Mukherjee
comfortably defeated P. A.
Sangma in the race to
Rashtrapati Bhavan, winning 70
percent of the electoral-college
vote.
Indian Politician
and the 12th President of India.
Date-wise Events / Works
November 08, 2004 - She was appointed
as the 24th Governor of Rajasthan and she was the first
woman to hold that office.
July 25, 2007 - Sworn in as President,
succeeding A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and after defeating her rival
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
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First female President
of India.
After her retirement in July
2012, she was succeeded by
Pranab Mukherjee as the
13th President.
In 1962, at the age of 27, she
was elected to the
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
for the Jalgaon constituency.
She became a Member of
Parliament in the Rajya
Sabha between 1985 and
1990.
In the 1991 elections for the
10th Lok Sabha, she
was elected as a Member of
Parliament representing the Amravati
constituency.
She had been for some years the
president of the Maharashtra Pradesh
Congress Committee and also held
office as Director of the National
Federation of Urban Co-operative
Banks and Credit Societies and as a
Member of the Governing Council of
the National Co-operative Union of
India.
She set up Vidya Bharati
Shikshan Prasarak Mandal,
an educational institute which runs
a chain of schools and colleges in
Amravati, Jalgaon and Mumbai.
She also set up Shram
Sadhana Trust, which runs
hostels for working women in New
Delhi, Mumbai and Pune; and an
engineering college
in Jalgaon.
July 25, 1992 - He became the 9th
President of India.
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Heserved as President of India
from 1992 to 1997.
He was also the 8th Vice
President of India, serving
under the President R. Venkataraman.
He had also been the
Governor of Maharashtra, Punjab and
Andhra Pradesh and also the
Administrator of Chandigarh.
He was also the
President of the Indian National
Congress from 1972 to 1974.
Well known for being a strict
follower of the
Parliamentary norms and
general discipline.
In 1984, his daughter
Geetanjali Maken and
son-in-law Lalit Maken,
a young member of parliament,
were killed by Sikh
militants.
He was succeeded by President
K.R. Narayanan.
Awards
and Accolades
The International Bar Association
presented Dr. Sharma with the 'Living
Legends of Law Award of Recognition'
for his outstanding contribution to the
legal profession internationally and for
commitment to the rule of law.
Commemorations
He was cremated at Karma Bhumi
(the land of duty), located in New Delhi
near the Vijay Ghat, the memorial of the
erstwhile Prime Minister of India, Lal
Bahadur Shastri.
He had been associated with the
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
for most of his life, though he is
currently an independent.
He was the Speaker of
the Lok Sabha (House of the
People) from 2004 to 2009.
During Jyoti Basu's tenure, he
was the Chairman of WBIDC
and in that capacity he made
countless overseas trips to promote
Foreign Direct Investment in West
Bengal.
After Buddhadeb
Bhattacharya became the
Chief Minister of West Bengal,
Somnath's influence within the party
and the state government waned
considerably, although as Speaker of
the Lok Sabha he held a
constitutional position of
importance.
He was known for his
fiscal integrity.
After moving into his official
residence, he discontinued the
practice of paying for toiletries
and tea from the national exchequer
and also, on trips abroad, he bore
the expenses of any accompanying
family members.
Awards
and Accolades
In 1996 he won the
Outstanding Parliamentarian Award.
The seventh President of India, serving from
1982 to 1987
Date-wise Events / Works
July 25, 1982 - Sworn in
as the 7th President of India.
July 10, 1985 - The soldiers and
generals involved in the Operation were presented with gallantry awards,
honours, decoration strips and promotions by him,
in a ceremony conducted on this day.
General
Before becoming President, he was a politician with the
Indian National Congress party, and had held several
ministerial posts in the Union Cabinet.
His presidency was marked by Operation Blue Star,
the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the
1984 anti-Sikh riots.
He was born in Sandhwan, Faridkot district, Punjab,
India.
He acquired the title of Giani, as he was educated
and learned about Guru Granth Sahib at Shaheed Sikh Missionary
College in Amritsar.
He was elected as a Congress Chief Minister of Punjab
in 1972.
He created a lifelong pension scheme for the
freedom fighters of the state.
He repatriated the remains of Shaheed-i-Azam Udham Singh
from London, and also the armaments and articles belonging to
Guru Gobind Singh.
In 1980, Zail Singh was elected to the 7th Lok Sabha,
and appointed as Minister of Home Affairs in Indira
Gandhi's cabinet.
Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984, and he appointed
Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister.
His remaining term was full of controversies on account of his
soured relations with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
He succeeded in forcing the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, to remove
KK Tewary, a congress MP who alleged on the floor
of the Lok Sabha that the President had sheltered terrorists in the
Rashtrapati Bhawan.
