Historical Events
Historic Event
1914 Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance
Historic Event
1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Act
- 1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
- 2018 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India
COVID-19 Pandemic
2020 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mumbai
More Indian History
Famous Birthdays
- 1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, British novelist (Vanity Fair), born in Kolkata, India (d. 1863)
- 1935 Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader (69th Shankaracharya Guru), born in Irulneeki, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu (d. 2018)
Priyanka Chopra
1982 Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress, singer and beauty queen (Miss World, 2000), born in Jamshedpur, India
Famous Deaths
- 2012 Rajesh Khanna, Indian Bollywood actor officially titled “The First Superstar of Indian cinema”, dies of kidney problems at 69
