January

31 days of Indian history

1 January
Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa ter…
Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
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2 January
Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood…
University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.
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3 January
Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM, inprisoned for 27 days,…
Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank…
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4 January
Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memor…
K. Margabandhu, former UCO Bank chief, was arrested on char…
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5 January
U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for eco…
60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train ramm…
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6 January
Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
Satwant Singh (24) and Kehar Singh (54) executed for the mu…
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7 January
Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Compan…
Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and fr…
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8 January
Rajasthan University established at Jaipur.
Jack "Murph the Surf" Murphy, 27, and a companion were arre…
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9 January
Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and t…
Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social refo…
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10 January
Opening ceremony of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Re…
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation…
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11 January
Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Com…
R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investi…
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12 January
Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All I…
De-monetisation of currency notes of the value of Rs. 500 a…
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13 January
Sir Michael O'Dwyer, ex-governor of Punjab, murdered by an…
Indian Airlines Bangalore-Madras A 320 Airbus with 56 passe…
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14 January
First issue of Marathi daily newspaper 'Loksatta' was publi…
Gujarati Daily 'Samkalin' of Indian Express Group published.
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15 January
Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hasti…
Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
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16 January
India and USA form new trade framework called Indo-US Comme…
Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
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17 January
Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), p…
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18 January
India's first electric car 'Reva' launched in Bangalore.
The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to t…
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19 January
G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congr…
Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was…
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20 January
Indian Express launches its 18th edition from Belgaum.
Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, wa…
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21 January
Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was bor…
Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born.
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22 January
The National Library for the Blind, the first national inst…
Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, M…
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23 January
An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his t…
India will be taught a lesson if it tries to cross the LoC,…
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24 January
Calcutta University established.
H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minist…
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25 January
Brahmo Samaj of modernisation and fraternity amongst religi…
Himachal Pradesh High Court was established at Shimla for H…
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26 January
Amar Jawan, a national memorial, established at India Gate,…
A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the…
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27 January
Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum mo…
President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memor…
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28 January
Supreme Court of India was inaugurated.
Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watch…
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29 January
Ramkrishna Mission Sanskritik Sansthan (Institute of Cultur…
Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurat…
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30 January
Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall…
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian…
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31 January
The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
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