• Former Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs and of Tourism and Culture in Government of India from 2003 to 2004.
• The first lady of Gujarat who has won four consecutive term of Lok Sabha from Junagadh constituency, Gujarat (from 1991 to 2004).
• Executive Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Wing from 1993 to 1996.
• Party Whip and Party Vice President in 1998.
• Chairperson of the Railway Convention Committee during 1999-2002.

• April 03, 1918 - Founding of the Madrs labour Union; The Madras Labour Union was one of the first organised labour unions in India and was founded by B. P. Wadia and V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar on this day.
• December 09, 1920 - Early union activity during October–December 1920 promptrd the government to order the police to shoot down striking workers; this led the strike to a forceful end.
• May 20, 1921 - the workers refused to work until the management agreed to discuss their wage rise demands.
• June 20, 1921 - In the absence of any positive response from the management, an official strike was declared on this day.
• June 28, 1921 - Management successfully divided the workers as well as the supporting groups and parties. This led to rioting among different factions on this day when about hundred huts were burnt.
• July 10, 1921: The striking workers were led by Congressman V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar. The Indian National Congress convened a meeting in Madras on this day; in this meeting, C. Rajagopalachari moved for a resolution sympathizing with the workers of the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills and supporting their cause.
• 29 August 1921 - the police opened fire killing six workers.

• He contested mainly in the 25 m Centre Fire Pistol category.
• Gold medallist at the :
  • 1994 Asian Games,
  • 1998 Commonwealth Games - Men's Center Fire Pistol, Men's Center Fire Pistol Pairs,
  • 2002 Commonwealth Games - Men's 25m Center Fire Pistol,
  • 2006 Commonwealth Games - Men's 25m Center Fire Pistol Pairs, and
  • 2006 Asian Games.
• Rana made his national début at the age of 12, at the 31st National Shooting Championship at Ahmedabad and won a Silver Medal.
• He shot into Standard Pistol shooting fame when he won a Gold at the 46th World Shooting Championship (Junior Section) with a world record score at Milan, Italy, in 1994.
• Rana won most of his medals in the Centre Fire Pistol event, but has also won Air Pistol, Standard Pistol, Free Pistol and Rapid Fire Pistol events.
• He has won more than 600 Medals at the national and international levels.
• At present, Rana coaches at the Jaspal Rana Institute of Education and Technology in Dehradun.

• In 1994, he was awarded Arjuna Award,  at an age of 18.
• By the age of 21, he became Padma Shri awardee.
• National Citizen award by Mother Teresa.

• He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). and subsequently in 2012 joined the INC (Indian National Congress).

• 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.

• 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.

• He was an Indian lawyer, politician and freedom fighter.
• He was a versatile personality with interests in a variety of subjects (other than politics) such as literature and computer software (including computer programming).
• He spoke 17 languages.
• He had also been Minister of Defence, Minister of External Affairs, Minister of Home Affairs of India as well as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
• He and his team managed a major economic and security reforms:  
  • As Industries Minister, he was personally responsible for the dismantling of the Licence Raj.  
  •  He is often referred to as the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms".  
  • He reversed the socialist policies of the previous government.  
  • He deployed Dr. Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister to embark on historic economic transition.
  •  With Rao's mandate, the Finance Minister launched India's globalisation angle of the reforms that implemented the IMF policies to rescue the almost bankrupt nation from economic collapse.  
  • Rao was also referred to as Chanakya for his ability to steer tough economic and political legislation through the parliament at a time when he headed a minority government.  
  • His term as Prime Minister was an eventful one in India's history.
  • He made a paradigm shift from the industrialising, mixed economic model of Jawaharlal Nehru to a market driven one.  
  • He died in 2004 of a heart attack in New Delhi. He was cremated in Hyderabad.

• June 20, 1837:   She became the queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• June 28, 1838:   Her coronation took place on  this day at Westminster Abbey, when she was just 19 years old. 
• February 10, 1840:   She got married to Prince Albert on this day.
• January 29, 1856:   On this day, she instituted the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.
• May 01, 1876:   She actually took charge as Empress of India with effect from this date. 
• January 01, 1877:   On this day, she was proclaimed Empress of India at the Imperial Durbar.
• June 20, 1887:   The present day Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India, is the erstwhile headquarters of the Great Indian peninsular Railway, which was christened 'Victoria Terminus' on this day, in honour of the 50 years of the Queen's reign.
• February 04, 1901:   She was buried on this day.

She was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and King George III died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

• 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.