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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 9/30/1687 |
Aurangzeb acquired the famous Golconda fort near Hyderabad from the Qutub Shahi Sultan Tana Shah due to the treachery of his General Panni. |
| 9/30/1881 |
Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/30/1894 |
Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born. |
| 9/30/1900 |
Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born. |
| 9/30/1908 |
Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 9/30/1916 |
Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P. |
| 9/30/1922 |
Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 9/30/1943 |
Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died. |
| 9/30/1961 |
Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/30/1963 |
The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives. |
| 9/30/1972 |
Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir. |
| 9/30/1981 |
Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International. |
| 9/30/1989 |
INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 9/30/1990 |
Former Dy PM Devilal submits his letter of resignation. |
| 9/30/1992 |
Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award. |
| 9/30/1996 |
Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 9/30/1996 |
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 9/30/1996 |
PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 9/30/1996 |
Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/30/1997 |
24th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum. |
| 9/30/1997 |
At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir. |
| 9/30/1997 |
Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 9/30/1999 |
India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
| 9/30/1999 |
Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature. |
| 9/30/1999 |
A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term. |
| 9/30/2000 |
Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik. |
| 9/30/2000 |
India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant. |
| 9/30/2000 |
The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/12/1897 | Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll). |
| 9/7/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 7/6/1837 | Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, a reputed oriental scholar and famous Indian Scientist, was born in Malvan in Ratnagiri district. He was a social reformer and an active member of Prathana Samaj of Bombay. |
| 11/24/1988 | Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member. |
| 5/22/1917 | Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 8/18/1957 | Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 6/11/1983 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89. |
| 12/20/1931 | Leela Nag (Leela Roy), freedom fighter and editor of Jayshri, was arrested in Bengal for her association with ""Depali Sangh"" who supported Chatgang Ammunition Plot against the Bengal Government. |
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