October 11, 1942 – Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh,
India.
Date of
Death
Identity
Indian Actor, Singer, Television Presenter
Date-wise Events / Works
June 03, 1973: He married to actress Jaya
Bhaduri on this day; they
have one son, Abhishek Bachchan (also an actor), and one
daughter, Shweta Nanda.
1984: He was an elected member of the Indian
Parliament from 1984 to 1987.
1984: He was honoured with
PADMA SHRI Award by the Govt of India.
1991: He became the first artist to receive
the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, which was
established in the name of Raj Kapoor.
1999: Bachchan was voted the "greatest star
of stage or screen" in a BBC Your Millennium online
poll.
2000: Crowned as Superstar of the Millennium at the Filmfare Awards.
June 2000: He became the first living Asian
to have been modelled in wax at London's Madame Tussauds Wax
Museum.
December 20, 2000: He
unveiled his own statue at the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
in London. He is the only film personality from India to be
so honoured. The other Indians, whose statues are there at
this museum are Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi
and Narasimha Rao.
2001: He was honoured with the Actor of the
Century award at the Alexandria International Film
Festival in Egypt in recognition of his contribution to the
world of cinem
2001: He was honoured with
PADMA BHUSHAN Award by the Govt of India.
2002: Bachchan himself wrote a book
"Soul Curry
for you and me"– An Empowering Philosophy That Can
Enrich Your Life.
2007: France's highest civilian honour, the Knight of
the Legion of Honour, was conferred upon him by the
French Government for his "exceptional career in the
world of cinema and beyond".
July 27, 2012: Bachchan carried the
Olympic torch during the last leg of its relay in London's
Southwark.
2013: He made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great
Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character,
Meyer Wolfsheim.
January 21, 2016: Amitabh
Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra were appointed as the new Brand
Ambassadors for Incredible India Campaign, substituting
Aamir Khan the erstwhile Brand Ambassador, whose 10 year
term had expired.
April 05, 2016: Panama Papers Leak:
Comment / clarification given by him on the controversy:
"I do not know any of the companies referred to by
The Indian Express - Sea Bulk Shipping Company Ltd, Lady
Shipping Ltd, Treasure Shipping Ltd, and Tramp Shipping
Ltd. I have never been a director of any of the above
stated companies. It is possible that my name has been
misused. I have paid all my taxes including on monies
spent by me overseas. Monies that I have remitted
overseas have been in compliance with law, including
remittances through LRS, after paying Indian taxes. In
any event the news report in Indian Express does not
even suggest any illegality on my part. "
Other Events &
Developments
A living legend – a superstar, well known as “The
Angry Young Man” of Bollywood.
His father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a
great poet; the author of the famous ‘Madhushala’.
He has appeared in over 180 films in his career of about
4 decades.
He gained unprecedented popularity on his "Kaun
Banega Karorpati" episodes.
Awards and Accolades
Three National Film Awards as Best Actor
(a record he shares with Kamal Hassan and Mammootty).
A number of awards at international film festivals and
award ceremonies.
Fourteen Filmfare Awards.
The most-nominated performer in any
major acting category at Filmfare, with 39
nominations overall.
He was honoured with Honorary Doctorate Degrees
by several universities in India and abroad.
Commemoration
Severals books have been written about Bachchan:
Amitabh Bachchan: the Legend was published in 1999
To be or not to be: Amitabh Bachchan in 2004
AB: The Legend: (A Photographer's Tribute) in 2006
Amitabh Bachchan: Ek Jeevit Kimvadanti in 2006
Amitabh: The Making of a Superstar in 2006
Looking for the Big B: Bollywood, Bachchan and Me in
2007
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.
Other Events &
Developments
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.
Novels authored by her: ·
The Tiger's Daughter (1971) · Wife (1975) · Jasmine (1989) · The
Holder of the World (1993) · Leave It to Me (1997) · Desirable
Daughters (2002) · The Tree Bride (2004) · Miss New India(2011)
Other Events &
Developments
She did her B.A. from University
of Calcutta and M.A. from University
of Baroda in India.
Then she moved to USA for
further studies; she received her
M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) from
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1963
and completed her Ph.D. in 1969.
She along with her husband,
Clark Blaise, co-authored ‘Days
and Nights in Calcutta’
(1977).
They also wrote the 1987 work,
The Sorrow and the Terror:
The Haunting Legacy of the Air India
Tragedy (Air India Flight
182).
She claims that while India had
been a wonderful root and home for
her, but now her roots are here in
America.
Awards
and Accolades
1988: National Book Critics Circle Award
(The Middleman and Other Stories).
Indian journalist
and former actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and
amateur rugby union player.
Other Events &
Developments
He has appeared in Hindi
films such as Pyaar Ke Side
Effects and Jhankaar Beats.
He also played the antagonist in
the 2013 Tamil-Hindi film
Vishwaroopam.
Time magazine named him "the
superstar of Indian arthouse cinema".
He is also notable for his
social activism: he
participated in the relief efforts
that followed the 2004
Boxing Day Tsunami and is
also the founder of the
anti-discrimination NGO,
The Foundation.
July 06, 1989: On this day also, a fire had broken
out at Uphaar cinema due to a fault in the sub station.
June 13, 1997: One of the worst fire tragedies in
recent Indian history of Delhi.
July 27, 1997: The owners of the cinema were finally arrested in Mumbai
on , and sent to judicial
custody, though were later released on bail.
April 24, 2003: It won ₹25 crore compensation
for the relatives and families of the victims in the case
vide high court verdict on this day.
October 13, 2011: However the Supreme Court on
this day,
nearly halved the sum of compensation awarded to them by the
Delhi high court and slashed punitive damages to be paid by
cinema owners Ansal brothers from ₹2.5 crore to ₹25 lakh.
August 19, 2015: Supreme court of
India imposed a fine on Ansal brothers for ₹ 30 crores each
and held that their jail terms will be reduced to the term
already undergone by them if they pay the fine, considering
their old age.
Description
59 people died, mostly due to
suffocation, and 103 were seriously injured
in the resulting stampede.
The victims of the tragedy and the families of the
deceased filed the landmark Civil compensation case.
It is now considered a breakthrough in civil
compensation law in India.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Licensing) who
inspected Uphaar, had listed ten serious violations,
however all remained uncorrected until the
fire 14 years later.
