Historical Events
Voyage of Discovery
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India
- 1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
- 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
Historic Event
2016 Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar is arrested on “anti-nationalism” charges by Indian police at an anniversary event of the death of Afzal Guru, at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University
- 2019 Hotel fire in New Delhi, India, kills 17
- 2019 Nasa data shows the world has got greener – 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India
More Indian History
Famous Birthdays
- 1824 Dayananda Sarasvati, Indian hindu leader, founder of Arya Samaj reform movement, born in Tantara, India (d. 1883)
- 1920 Pran Krishan Sikand, Indian actor often cast as the villain in Hindi cinema (Khandaan, Be-Imaan), born in New Delhi (d. 2013)
- 1947 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984)
- 1967 Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician, born in Mysore, India
Famous Deaths
- 1951 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan and recognized as the creator of the name “Pakistan” for a separate Muslim, homeland in South Asia and is known as the founder of the Pakistan National Movement), dies at 53
