October

31 days of Indian history

1 October
Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking…
Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born i…
33
2 October
Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police whe…
Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable t…
37
3 October
Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in…
Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 mon…
23
4 October
Riots in Calcutta.
Delhi court issues non-bailable warrant against PVN Rao and…
17
5 October
CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya case. Advani, Joshi and Ba…
East India company got authority from the King of England t…
20
6 October
Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province,…
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer, innovator, ch…
25
7 October
Guru Govind Singh, tenth and the last Sikh Guru, was assass…
Indian peace-keeping troops in Sri Lanka ordered to shoot a…
25
8 October
16 policemen are killed when their vehicle is blown up by P…
RBI announces 1\% cut in the lending and deposit rates.
16
9 October
Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the n…
Sukha and Jinda, assassins of former army chief Gen. A. S.…
23
10 October
Noakhali Massacre.
Marxist extremists set fire to a crowded train in Andhra Pr…
29
11 October
Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinate…
Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was bor…
19
12 October
A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasi…
RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
23
13 October
Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges o…
Chandrababu Naidu, TDP leader, said that his party would su…
20
14 October
Assam Ganparishad established.
Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the ar…
22
15 October
Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who maste…
King of England permitted the East India Company to mint th…
27
16 October
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal of Azad Hind Fauz died. During th…
29
17 October
Prime Minister lays foundation stone of the Science City be…
Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journ…
23
18 October
1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar…
Prince Philip switches on the internet version of Malayala…
22
19 October
Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sa…
Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at M…
22
20 October
Veerappan, the forest brigand, releases the six hostages af…
Security forces unearth 770 kg of RDX and plastic explosive…
26
21 October
Sukhdev Singh alias Sukha and Harminder Singh alias Jinda s…
Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dut…
25
22 October
Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping fro…
Swami Rama Tirtha, great social reformer and poet, was born…
16
23 October
Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline up…
The chargesheet in Bofors case is a legal triumph, said Mr.…
19
24 October
Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the Br…
Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam li…
34
25 October
Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said P…
Pramod Mahajan, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, says, "…
16
26 October
Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to…
CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93…
27
27 October
The first Ladies Police Station started functioning at Cali…
Jatindra Nath Das, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was…
22
28 October
Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar.
Federal agents early this morning caught Guru Shree Rajnees…
25
29 October
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two year…
Priceless and irreplaceable gems, including the famed 'Star…
23
30 October
Demonstrators and police clash in Madras as Indira Gandhi t…
Several people died and many injured as security forces ope…
27
31 October
Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned…
Dr. A. P. Mukherjee became the director of Central Bureau o…
27