October 15, 1932 - Founded in 1932 by
J. R. D. Tata and later renamed as Tata Airlines; he
flew its first airplane on this day, carrying air
mail from Karachi to Bombay and later continuing to Madras
(currently Chennai).
July 29, 1946 - After World War II,
regular commercial service was restored in India and Tata
Airlines became a public limited company under the name Air
India.
June 08, 1948 -
First inter-nation service started on this day. The first aircraft to be commissioned in the inter-nation
service was christened 'Malabar Princess'.
December 13, 1950 - an Air India DC-3
carrying 21 people (17 passengers and four crew), en route
from Bombay to Coimbatore, crashed into high ground near
Kotagiri due to a navigational error, killing all on board.
September 15, 1951 - an Air India
Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying 27 people (23 passengers and
four crew) en route from Bangalore to Trivandrum, crashed on
take-off killing a crew member.
May 09, 1953 - an Air India Douglas
C-47 Skytrain carrying 18 people (13 passengers and five
crew) crashed after take-off from Delhi killing all on
board.
August 25, 1953 - Govt. of India takes
over majority stake in Air India (Now it became Air
India International Ltd.)
April 11, 1955 - Kashmir Princess,
carrying 19 people (11 passengers and 8 crew) was bombed in
mid-air, killing 16 of the 19 on board.
July 19, 1959 - Rani of Aera, a
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation carrying 46 people (39
passengers and seven crew) crashed on approach to Santacruz
Airport in conditions of poor visibility due to rain. The
aircraft suffered damage beyond repair and was written off.
There were no fatalities.
February 21, 1960 - it included its
first Boeing 707–420 named Gauri Shankar
and became the first Asian airline to induct a jet
aircraft in its fleet.
May 14, 1960 - The airline inaugurated
services to New York.
June 08, 1962 - the airline's name was
officially truncated to Air India.
June 11, 1962 - Air India became the
world's first all-jet airline.
June 21, 1982 - Air India Flight 403
Gouri Shankar, a Boeing 707–420 carrying 99 passengers and
12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Bombay via Madras crashed
during landing at Sahar International Airport during a
rainstorm. The fuselage exploded and 17 people including two
crew members were killed.
June 23, 1985 - Air India Flight 182
was an Air India flight operating on the Montreal,
Canada–London, UK–Delhi, India route. On this day, the
Boeing 747-237B "Emperor Kanishka" serving
the flight was destroyed by a bomb at an
altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m). It crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace. A total of
329 people were killed, the majority of the
victims were Canadian citizens of Indian ancestry. Canadian
law enforcement determined that the main suspects in the
bombing were members of the Sikh militant group
Babbar Khalsa.
May 07, 1990 - Air India Flight 132
Emperor Vikramaditya, a Boeing 747-237B flying on the
London-Delhi-Bombay route carrying 215 people (195
passengers and 20 crew) caught fire on touch down at Delhi
airport due to a failure of an engine pylon to wing
attachment. There were no fatalities but the aircraft was
damaged beyond repair and written off.
August 04, 1993 - Air India took the delivery of its
first Boeing 747–400 named Konark.
April 01, 1996 - Air India Regional was
established as Alliance Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Indian Airlines.
June 21, 1996 - Alliance Air started
its operations. It was renamed Air India Regional after the
merger between Air India and Indian Airlines.
May 23, 2001 - the Ministry of Civil
Aviation charged Michael Mascarenhas, the
then-managing director, with corruption.
According to the ministry reports, the airline lost
approximately ₹570 million (US$8.5 million) because of extra
commissions that Mascarenhas sanctioned and he was later
suspended from the airline.
April 29, 2005 - Air India Express
began operations on this day and was initially owned by Air
India Charters. It operates flights from South India to the
Middle East and Southeast Asia.
January 11, 2006 - Air India announced
an order for 68 jets.
May 15, 2007 - Air India refreshed its
livery, making the Rajasthani arches along the windows
slightly smaller, extending a stylised line from the tail of
the aircraft to the nose and painting the underbelly red.
The new logo features on the tail and the engine covers with
red and orange lines running parallel to each other from the
front door to the rear door.
May 22, 2007 - Air India and Indian
Airlines unveiled their new livery consisting of a Flying
Swan with the wheel of Konark placed inside it.
May 22, 2010 - Air India Express Boeing 737
went over a cliff and crashed upon landing at Mangalore,
India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board.
July 26, 2007 - First Boeing 777-200LR
aircraft was delivered on this day, which was named
Andhra Pradesh.
October 09, 2007 - Air India received
its first Boeing 777-300ER aircraft named as Bihar.
September 06, 2012 - Air India received
its first Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft.
September 19, 2012 - Flights of its
first Boeing 787 dreamliner aircraft were commenced on this
day.
April 24, 2014 - Air India issued a
tender for leasing 14 Airbus A320 aircraft for up to six
years, to strengthen its domestic network.
July 11, 2014 - Air India became the
27th member of Star Alliance.
Description
Air India is the flag carrier airline of India and the third
largest airline in India in terms of passengers carried, after
IndiGo and Jet Airways.
It is owned by Air India Limited, a Government of India
enterprise and operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft
serving 84 domestic and international destinations. It is
headquartered in New Delhi. Air India has its main hub at Indira
Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi and a secondary hub at
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai.
Air India's mascot is the Maharajah (Emperor) and the logo
consists of a flying Swan with the wheel of Konark inside it.
She played a leading role during
Quit India Movement.
She was elected as
Delhi’s first Mayor.
Aruna Asaf Ali was a legendary
heroine of India's freedom
struggle.
She unfurled the
national flag at the Gowalia Tank
maidan to signify the
commencement of the Quit India
Movement and became a legend for
thousands of youth that rose to
emulate her.
Awards
and Accolades
She was awarded the
Lenin Prize for peace in
1975.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
award for International
understanding for 1991.
An Indian-American ophthalmologist, educator, and
researcher, currently working at the University of Utah.
Date-wise Events / Works
1988:
He wrote in 1988 a
book on AIDS at age 11 with his brother, who is also a doctor
now.
May 19, 1995:
He completed his MD on this day at
age 17 years, 294 days. During this year, he entered the Guinness Book of World
Records as the world's youngest doctor,
at the age of seventeen.
2013: Troutman-Véronneau Prize from the
Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology.
2014: Ludwig von Sallmann Clinician-Scientist Award
from the ARVO Foundation.
Other Events &
Developments
After completing a fellowship in cornea and refractive
surgery at Duke University in 2002, he joined the faculty of
the Medical College of Georgia, where he practiced clinical
ophthalmology and conducted research in such areas as
corneal angiogenesis and outcomes of corneal and refractive
surgery.
Fourth IRDS Awards for Medicine for his
achievements, awarded by the Lucknow based Institute for
Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS).
December 23, 1940 - HAL was established
as Hindustan Aircraft in Bangalore on this day.
July 29, 1941 - This day witnessed the
first flight
of the first indigenously assembled aircaft (HARLOW PC-5A
basic trainer aircraft).
April 02, 1942 - The government
announced that the company had been nationalised when it had
bought out the stakes of Seth Walchand Hirachand and other
promoters.
October 01, 1964 - HAL was formed by
merger of the then existing Hindustan Aircraft with
Aeronautics India Limited and Aircraft Manufacturing Depot,
Kanpur.
April 01, 2015 - HAL
reconstituted its Board with Mr. TS Raju as CMD,
Mr. S Subrahmanyan as Director (Operations), Mr. VM Chamola
as Director (HR), CA Ramana Rao as Director (Finance) and
Mr. D K Venkatesh as Director (Engineering & R&D).
June 17, 2016: India's
indigenous basic 2-seater trainer aircraft, Hindustan Turbo
Trainer-40+ (HTT-40), made its inaugural flight in Bengaluru
on this day. HTT-40 will be used for the first-stage
training for all flying cadets of the three services.
January 18, 2016: Tejas
compared with JF-17 Thunder of Pakistan and China:
Description
Originally, Hindustan Aircraft was set up at Bangalore
by Seth Walchand Hirachand in association with the princely
state of Mysore in December, 1940.
The Government of India became shareholder in March,
1941 and took over its management in the next year.
HAL's present product-mix includes Agricultural
aircraft, Fighter aircraft, Helicopters, Engines, Trainer
aircraft, Transport and passenger aircraft, Gliders,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, etc.
Its present ongoing coveted project is "Production
TEJAS Light Combat Aircraft" which has since been
inducted into the Indian Air Force.
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FEATURES
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It is an annual
celebration to raise awareness for tiger conservation.
Description
Also known as Global Tiger Day.
It was created in 2010 at the Saint
Petersburg Tiger Summit.
The goal of the day is to promote a global system
for protecting the natural habitats of tigers
and to raise public awareness and support for tiger
conservation issues.
A winning singer on the STAR
Plus show Amul STAR Voice of
India.
Hailing from Model town,
Ludhiana of Punjab, he won the Star
Plus show in 2007 and also
participated in another reality show
called Jo Jeeta Wohi
Superstar.
His first album was a religious
Gurbani album called Satgur
Tumre Kaaj Savaare.
ISHWAR CHANDRA
VIDYASAGAR, born Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyay
Date of
Birth
September 26, 1820
Date of
Death
July 29, 1891
Identity
Indian Bengali
polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
Date-wise Events / Works
December 07, 1856
- He arranged the first widow re-marriage in India; pursuant to
the law instituted in July, 1856, as a result of his initiative
and efforts, by Lord Canning authorizing re-marriage of Hindu
widows.
Other Events &
Developments
He was a philosopher, academic
educator, writer, translator,
printer, publisher, entrepreneur,
reformer, and philanthropist.
His efforts to simplify and
modernize Bengali prose were
significant.
He reconstructed the Bengali
alphabet and reformed Bengali
typography into an alphabet of
twelve vowels and forty consonants.
He received the title
"Vidyasagar" from Sanskrit College,
Calcutta (from where he graduated),
due to his excellent performance in
Sanskrit studies and philosophy.
Commemoration
Vidyasagar Setu
(commonly known as the Second
Hooghly Bridge), is named after him.
A fair named Vidyasagar
Mela, which is dedicated to
spreading education and increasing
social awareness, has been held
annually in West Bengal since 1994.
A university named
Vidyasagar University is
located in Paschim Midnapore.
The government designated
Vidyasagar a Companion of the Indian
Empire (CIE) in
1877.
There is
Vidyasagar Street in
Central Kolkata, which is named
after him.
The West Bengal Government has
established a stadium named after
him (Vidyasagar Stadium)
at Barasat, the district center of
North 24 Parganas.
February 10, 1929
- He became India’s first licensed pilot.
March 30, 1979: He was
presented the Tony Jannus Award by the Chamber of Commerce
at Florida, USA. Thus he became a member of small select
group of the all-time greats of the world of aviation.
Other Events &
Developments
Father of Indian Civil
Aviation.
He joined Tata & Sons as an
unpaid apprentice in 1925.
In 1938, at the age of 34, JRD
was elected Chairman of Tata & Sons
making him the head of the
largest industrial group in
India.
He founded India's first
commercial airline, Tata Airlines in
1932, which became
Air India in 1946, now
India's national airline.
When he joined Tata & Sons,
there were 14 enterprises
in the group; when he left, there
were 95 of them.
He was the trustee of the
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
from its inception in 1932
for over half a century. Under his
guidance, this Trust established
Asia's first cancer hospital, the
Tata Memorial Center for
Cancer, Research and
Treatment, in Bombay in 1941. It
also founded the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences (TISS,
1936), the Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (TIFR,
1945), and the National
Center for Performing Arts.
Tata Motors
were founded in 1945.
In 1948, he launched Air
India International as
India's first international airline.
In 1953, the Indian Government
appointed JRD Tata as
Chairman of Air India and a
director on the Board of
Indian Airlines.
United Nations Population Award
for his crusading endeavors towards
initiating and successfully
implementing the family planning
movement in India, much before it
became an official government
policy.
Commemorations
On his death, the Indian
Parliament was adjourned in his
memory.
Other
His father, R.D. Tata
was the first cousin of Jamsetji
Tata, a pioneer industrialist
in India.
Indian
Film Actor, Director, Producer and politician.
Date-wise Events / Works
April 1993 -
Due to terrorist interactions,
and illegal possession of illegal arms,
Sanjay was arrested under the Terrorist and
Disruptive Activities Act (TADA). Sanjay had earlier confessed that he met Qayuum in Dubai
in September 1992 and bought a pistol from him.
November 1993 - A
long primary charge sheet was filed against the 189 accused
in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case including Sanjay.
1994-95 -
He spent 18 months in jail until he was
granted bail in October 1995 by the Supreme Court of India.
March 2006 - the prosecution said that one of the
accused in Bombay blast case had delivered some
rifles and hand grenades to Sanjay Dutt at his
Bandra house in January 1993.
2006 - He was finally acquitted of any
TADA-related offenses but was charged under
the illegal possession of arms act.
February 13, 2007 - Mumbai police
arrested Abdul Qayyum, a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim, also
known to Sajay Dutt, and
wanted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
July 2007 -
Dutt was sentenced to six years
rigorous imprisonment for illegally possessing weapons.
He was immediately taken into custody and sent to
Jail in Mumbai.
November 2007 -
the Supreme Court of India granted him
interim bail upon which he was released
from jail.
March 21, 2013 - The Supreme Court
upheld his conviction to serve jail for 5 years, 18 months
of which he already spent in jail during the trial.
May 16, 2013 - He surrendered before
the special TADA Court in Mumbai and was sent to jail.
December 21, 2013 - He was paroled.
The parole was extended three times until March 2014,
raising concern in Mumbai High Court and a proposal from the
Government of Maharashtra to amend the law of parole.
December 24, 2014 - Sanjay Dutt was out on a two weeks' furlough by the
Yerwada Central Jail authorities.
February 25, 2016 - After serving his sentence, Dutt was released from
Yerwada Central Jail.
Other Events &
Developments
He was well known for his work in Hindi cinema.
He is the son of reputed film actors Sunil Dutt
and Nargis Dutt.
Awards
and Accolades
2000: Filmfare Award, Best Actor
for Vaastav: The Reality
2000: International Indian Film
Academy Award, Best Actor for
Vaastav: The Reality
2000: Star Screen Award, Best
Actor for Vaastav: The Reality
2001: Star Screen Award, Best
Supporting Actor for Mission Kashmir
2001: Zee Premiere Choice- Male
for Mission Kashmir
2003: Bollywood Movie Award -
Critics Award Male for Kaante
2004: BFJA Awards, Best Actor
for Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
2004: Bollywood Movie Award -
Most Sensational Actor for Munnabhai
M.B.B.S.
2004: Celebrity Style Male at
the Bollywood Fashion Awards
2004: Filmfare Award, Best
Comedian for Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
2004: Stardust Star of the Year
Award - Male, Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
2006: Global Indian Film Awards,
Critics Choice Awards – Best Actor
(Male) for Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2007: Stardust Star of the Year
Award - Male, Lage Raho Munnabhai
2007: Zee Cine Awards – Best
Actor (Male) Critics Awards for Lage
Raho Munnabhai
2010: International Indian Film
Academy Award, Best Performance in a
Comic Role for All the Best
2013: Stardust Award for Best
Actor in Negative Role, Agneepath
June 28, 1914: Assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of
Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia July 28, 1914: Begining of the World War - I, when
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. See the
ww-I timeline attached November 11, 1918: Armistice day; fighting ceases at 11am
May 07- June 28, 1919: Treaty of Versailles drafted and
signed
Description
It was a Global warfare involving
Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China
and off the coast of South and North AmericaBut centred in
Europe.
A small conflict became a
big warfare and soon Germany, Russia, Great
Britain, and France were all dragged into the war.
Despite the death of millions of soldiers
in brutal conditions, neither side had gained any
advantage.
Angered by attacks upon its ships in the Atlantic,
USA also declared war on Germany in April,
1017.
In November, 1917, Russia pulled out of the war because
of the Bolshevik Revolution at home.
A deadly outbreak of influenza, in
1918, took heavy tolls on soldiers of both sides.
Eventually, the governments of both Germany and
Austria-Hungary began to lose control.
The fighting ended in the late fall of 1918, after the
member countries of the Central Powers signed armistice
agreements one by one. But the final end of the war was
achieved only after signing of the treaty of
Versailles.
Germany, under the Treaty of Versailles, was
severely punished with strict sanctions.
Some historians believe that the excessive
punishment of Germany had actually actually planted
the seeds of World War II, rather than
foster peace.
India Gate in New Delhi was built as a
War Memorial to commemorate the
death of 90,000 Indian soldiers, who were killed in
the North West Province during the First World War and the
Afghan Fiasco of 1919.
