1784 |
Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. |
1951 |
President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple. |
1962 |
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected the President of India. He succeeded Dr. Rajendra Prasad. |
1998 |
India announced three nuclear tests at Pokaran in Rajasthan. |
2000 |
According to the population clock, India's population reached one billion. |
2007 |
The Bahujan Samaj Party secured a majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and party leader Mayawati took over as the chief minister. |
1960 |
The first contraceptive pill market was made available in 1960. |
2005 |
In 2005, the World Bank appointed a neutral expert on the Baglihar project to settle Indo-Pak differences. |
2011 |
India and Pakistan agreed to start a bus service between Lahore and Amritsar. |
1918 |
India's famous classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was born in 1918. |
2002 |
Princess of Bhopal politics and India's first female pilot Abida Sultan died in 2002. |