Bharat Ratna (1991)
His 182 m tall statue, Statue of Unity, is under construction
It will be the world's tallest statue
Third and the only woman Prime Minister of India
She masterminded and implemented a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977
She was assassinated by her own Sikh guards after the Blue Star Operation
One of the most famous music composer for Hindi movies
Also a famous Bengali singer and composer
PADMA BHUSHAN - 1967
On this day, he became the first non-American (and third man)
to swim across the entire (50 mile length) of the Panama Canal in 34 hrs and 15 mins.
PADMA VIBHUSHAN 2004 & BHARTIYA JNANPITH AWARD 1982
The first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist
First woman to win the Sahitya Akademi Award
Most remembered for her poem Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu
(Oct 31, 1876)
One of the deadliest cyclones in history
in Backerganj (near Meghna estuary), Bengal, India
(in present-day Barisal, Bangladesh)
Killing about 200,000 people due to surge as well as famine