May1

Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.

Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.

Janata Party was established.

Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.

Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives.

Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna.

Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.

Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.

Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.

Dr. Namwar Singh was born.

Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India.

All fuel coal mines were nationalised.

All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.

May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.

Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.

Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.

Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.

Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer.

Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.

Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.

Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.

SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.

The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.

India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.

Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.

60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.

V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away.

International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.

Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.

Anand wins all three categories in Amber chess tournament in Monte Carlo.

India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.

Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.

Amravati University established.

Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.

Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.

C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.

Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune.

Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.

Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.

Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.

Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'.

Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).

The Bofors Deal.

P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case.

Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers.