1857 | On the day of 1857, Mangal Pandey, a soldier of the Barrackpore Regiment of British India, was hanged for the crime of breaching military discipline and murder. |
1894 | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the author of India's national song "Vande Mataram", died in 1894. |
1929 | On this day in 1929, revolutionary Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw a Delhi assembly bomb. |
1950 | After the 1950 India-Pakistan partition, on this day both countries had entered into an agreement with a view to securing the rights of the minorities living in their respective countries and ending the possibilities of war between the two countries in future. |
1831 | The famous social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy arrived in England in 1831. |
1985 | The border war between India and Pakistan started in 1985, also known as the Second War of Kashmir. |
2008 | The governments of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka declared Sikhs as a minority in their state. |