Indian History - The History of India

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Period Description
ANCIENT
EMPIRES
ca. 2500-1600 B.C. Indus Valley culture.
ca. 1500-500 B.C. Migrations of Aryan-speaking tribes; the Vedic Age.
ca. 1000 B.C. Settlement of Bengal by Dravidian-speaking peoples.
ca. 563-ca. 483 B.C. Life of Siddartha Gautama--the Buddha; founding of Buddhism.
Mauryan Empire; reign of Ashoka (269-232 B.C.); spread of
ca. 326-184 B.C.
Buddhism.
ca. 180 B.C.-A.D.
Shaka dynasties in Indus Valley.
150
ca. A.D. 320-550 Gupta Empire; classical age in North India.
606-47 North Indian empire of Harsha.
711 Arab invaders conquer Sindh, establish Islamic presence in India.
750-1150 Pala Dynasty.
1150-1202 Sena Dynasty.
GROWTH OF
ISLAM
997-1027 Mahmud of Ghazni raids Indian subcontinent from Afghanistan.
1202 Turkish conquerors defeat Sena Dynasty and overrun Bengal.
1206-1398 Delhi Sultanate.
1398 Timur sacks Delhi.
1414-50 Sayyid Dynasty; renewal of Delhi Sultanate.
1451-1526 Lodi Dynasty.
THE MUGHAL
PERIOD
Babur lays foundation of Mughal Empire; wins First Battle of
1526
Panipat.
Akbar expands and reforms the empire; Mughals win Second Battle
1556-1605
of Panipat.
Reign of Jahangir; in 1612 East India Company opens first trading
1605-27
post (factory).
1628-58 Reign of Shah Jahan.
1658-1707 Reign of Aurangzeb, last great Mughal ruler.
1707-1858 Lesser emperors; decline of the Mughal Empire.
BRITISH PERIOD
Battle of Plassey--British victory over Mughal forces in Bengal;
1757
British rule in India begins.
1835 Institution of British education and other reform measures.
1857-58 Revolt of Indian sepoys (soldiers) against East India Company.
East India Company dissolved; rule of India under the British crown--
1858 the British Raj--begins with Government of India Act; formal end of
Mughal Empire.
1885 Indian National Congress (Congress) formed.
Partition of Bengal into separate provinces of Eastern Bengal and
1905
Assam, West Bengal.
1906 All-India Muslim League (Muslim League) founded.
1909 Morley-Minto Reforms; separate electorates for Muslims.
Partition of Bengal annulled; new province of Bihar and Orissa
1912
formed; plans to move capital from Calcutta to Delhi announced.
Congress-League Scheme of Reforms (often referred to as Lucknow
1916
Pact) signed.
1919 Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; Government of India Act.
1935 Government of India Act of 1935.
Muslim League adopts Lahore Resolution; "Two Nations" theory
1940 articulated by Muslim League leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah and
others.
August 16, 1946 "Direct Action Day" of Muslim League.
INDEPENDENT
INDIA
Partition of British India; India achieves independence and
incorporates West Bengal and Assam; Jawaharlal Nehru becomes
prime minister of India. Pakistan is created and incorporates East
August 15, 1947
Bengal (the East Wing, or East Pakistan) and territory in the
northwest (the West Wing, or West Pakistan); Jinnah becomes
governor general of Pakistan.
August 15, 1947-May Jawaharlal Nehru serves as prime minister and leader of Congress-
27, 1964 controlled government.
October 22, 1947- Undeclared war with Pakistan; ends with United Nations-arranged
January 1, 1949 ceasefire.
January 30, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi.
October 20-
Border war with China.
November 21, 1962
June 9, 1964-January Lal Bhadur Shastri serves as prime minister of Congress-led
11, 1966 government.
August 5-September
Second war with Pakistan.
23, 1965
January 24, 1966- Indira Gandhi serves as prime minister for first time, head of
March 24, 1977 government initially led by Congress, later Congress (R).
Third war with Pakistan; Bangladesh becomes independent
December 3-16, 1971
following Indian invasion of East Pakistan.
June 25, 1975-
State of Emergency proclaimed by Indira Gandhi.
January 18, 1977
March 24, 1977-July Morarji Desai serves as prime minister as head of a multiparty front,
28, 1979 Janata Party, India's first non-Congress government.
July 28, 1979- Chaudhury Charan Singh serves as prime minister as head of a
January 14, 1980 Janata-led coalition government.
January 14, 1980- Indira Ganhdi serves as prime minister for second time, head of
October 31, 1984 Congress (I) government.
October 31, 1984 Indira Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi.
October 31, 1984- Rajiv Gandhi serves as prime minister of Congress (I)-led
December 2, 1989 government.
December 2, 1989- Vishwanath Pratap Singh serves as prime minister of National Front-
November 7, 1990 led coalition government.
November 10, 1990- Chandra Shekhar serves as prime minister, heading Samajwadi
June 20, 1991 Janata Party government.
May 21, 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassinated near Madras.
June 20, 1991-May P.V. Narasimha Rao serves as prime minister of Congress (I)-led
15, 1996 government.
Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, destroyed by Hindu
December 6, 1992
activists.
Communal violence in wake of Babri Masjid destruction wracks
January-March 1993 Indian cities, especially Bombay, which suffered from a series of
bomb blasts in March.
Unpopular Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act of
May 1995
1985 allowed to lapse
General elections for Lok Sabha oust Congress (I) government of
April 27-May 7, 1996
P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Minority Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Prime
May 15-28, 1996
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee resigns after thirteen days.
Haradanahalli (H.D.) Deve Gowda, head of thirteen-party United
June 1, 1996
Front, sworn in as India's eleventh prime minister.
Events of 1979
[edit] January
• January 1 – United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the
International Year of the Child. Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF
Concert fund including ABBA, who wrote the song Chiquitita, to commemorate the
event.
• January 1 – The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full
diplomatic relations.
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• January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured
in the Kent State shootings.
• January 7 – Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer
Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.
• January 8 – The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry,
Ireland; 50 are killed.
• January 9 – The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General
Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast
the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by The Bee Gees,
other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire.
A soundtrack album is later released.
• January 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating
to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
• January 19 – Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after
19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
• January 21 – Super Bowl XIII: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35–31
at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
• January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing
2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her response to the action, "I don't like
Mondays," inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.

[edit] February
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• February 1 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her
sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years
of exile.
• February 3 – Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
• February 7 – Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and
government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative
Assembly is held.
• February 7 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known
to science.
• February 10–February 11 – The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
• February 11 – Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
• February 12 – Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the Battle of N'Djamena in an attempt
to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
• February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and
sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to
Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers
and police.
• February 14 – Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos
legally changes her name from Walter. She later reveals this information in an interview
in the May 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine.
• February 15 – A suspected gas explosion in a Warsaw bank kills 49.
• February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the
Sino-Vietnamese War.
• February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
• February 22 – Saint Lucia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• February 26 – A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse
is visible over almost all of North America and Central America. [1]
• February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled
due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.

[edit] March
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• March 1 – Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales
votes against it.
• March 4 – The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
• March 5 – Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
• March 7 – The largest Magnetar (Soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.
• March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
• March 13 – Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada.
• March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing,
killing at least 200.
• March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the U.K. collapses, killing 2 workers.
• March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan,
Lancashire.[1]
• March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the
John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
• March 26 – In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and
Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty.
• March 28 – In Britain, Jim Callaghan's government loses a motion of confidence by 1
vote, forcing a general election.
• March 29 – America's most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island,
Pennsylvania.
• March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Head of
State) of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.
• March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland
spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of
Commons car park.
• March 31 – The last British soldier (belonging to the Royal Navy) leaves the Maltese
Islands, after 179 years of presence. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
• March 31 – Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for
Israel, with the song Hallelujah.
[edit] April
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• April 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing
the Shah officially.
• April 1–April 18 – Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria,
and forget about, leaving him there without food or drink.
• April 1 – The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on
various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience
reach.
• April 2 – Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk
accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of
livestock.
• April 10 – A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26
tornadoes that day).
• April 11 – Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
• April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale)
strikes Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) and parts of Albania, causing extensive
damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of Budva is devastated.
• April 17 – Schoolchildren in the Central African Republic are arrested (and around 100
killed) for protesting against compulsory school uniforms. An African judicial
commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took
part in the massacre.
• April 20 – President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his
hometown of Plains, Georgia.
• April 22 – The Albert Einstein Memorial is unveiled at The National Academy of
Sciences in Washington, DC.
• April 23 – Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan
Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.
[edit] May
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May 4: Thatcher
• May 1 – Greenland gets home rule.
• May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the
Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
• May 8 – The Manchester, England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by
fire; 10 shoppers die.
• May 9 – A Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John
Harris.
• May 10 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• May 21 – After Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor
George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay men in the city riot.
• May 21 – The Montréal Canadiens defeat the New York Rangers 4 games to 1 in the
best-of-seven series, winning the Stanley Cup.
• May 25 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport, killing 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.
• May 25 – John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in
America after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
• May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner
Roger Penske for the second time.
[edit] June
June
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• June 1 – The Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• June 1 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in
succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
• June 1 – The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington
Bullets.
 • June 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on his first official, nine-day stay,
becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. This visit, known as nine days that
changed the world, brought about the solidarity of the Polish peoples against
communism, ultimately leading to the rise of the Solidarity movement.
• June 3 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least
600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill
to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest
unintentional oil spill ever.
• June 3 – General elections are held in Italy.
• June 4 – Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
• June 4 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in
which General Akuffo is overthrown.
• June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens
from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs. It is also
the first international election in history.
• June 12 – Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English
Channel.
• June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
• June 20 – A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill
Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the
killing on tape.
• June 23 – Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern
Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full
integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.
• June 24 – Bologna (Italy): foundation of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an
international opinion tribunal, at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
• June 25 – Belgium: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an
assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.
[edit] July
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• July 1 – Sweden outlaws corporal punishment in the home.
• July 3 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.
 • July 9 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
• July 11 – NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being
in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
• July 12 – Kiribati declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• July 12 – A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing
the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
• July 12 – Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
• July 12 – A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in Europe
in decades.
• July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein
replaces him.
• July 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to
Miami, Florida.
• July 19 – Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe Pageant; the stage
collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.
• July 19 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary
campaign against the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.
• July 19 – Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal
[edit] August
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• August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania.
• August 9 – The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
• August 9 – Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most
notorious gangs in the United States, is shot and killed 5 months after his arrest for
quadruple murder (his killers have not yet been identified).
• August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7
million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album.
• August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
• August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional
Irish Republican Army. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs:
Provisional Irish Republican Army members attack a British convoy at Narrow Water,
County Down, killing 18 British soldiers.
 • August 28 – The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches 5 when Doreen
Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, 83, dies in a hospital as a result of her injuries.
• August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal
constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States.
[edit] September
September
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• September 1 – The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it
passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
• September 7 – The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN,
debuts.
• September 9 – The long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse begins its run.
• September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf
Coast.
• September 16 – Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.
• September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the
Central African Republic.
• September 22 – The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a
nuclear weapons test.
• September 30 – The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified
Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).
[edit] October
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• October 1 – Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is
established.
• October 1–October 6 – Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
• October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a
money supply target policy, causing interest rate fluctuations and economic recession.
 • October 9 – Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record 6 laps, with a lap record on
the last lap.
• October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington,
D.C., involving many tens of thousands of people.
• October 15 – Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a
newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
• October 16 – A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
• October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles in Game 7 of the World
Series. Willie Stargell is named the Series MVP.
• October 19 – 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.[2]
• October 26 – Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA
director Kim Jaegyu.
• October 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.
• October 31 – Birth Evangelist Raj Kumar Ganta, the wellknown evangelist and founder
of APPLE Association.
[edit] November
November
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• November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people
to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli
interests.
• November 2 – French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
• November 2 – Assata Shakur (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of Black
Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba,
where she remains under political asylum.
• November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers
Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during
a "Death to the Klan" rally.
• November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade
the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They
demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
• November 5 – The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public
Radio.
• November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a
resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name
 Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and
championships.
• November 7 – U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge
President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
• November 9 – The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends with all 4 men found guilty. James
Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a
recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found
guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty
on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.[3]
• November 9 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National
Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet
nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early
warning radars, the alert was cancelled.[4]
• November 12 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S.
President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
• November 12 – Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (43rd
government, a minority government)
• November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order
12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the
hostage crisis.
• November 16 – Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from
Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
• November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release
of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
• November 20 – A group of 200 Juhayman al-Otaibi militants occupy Mecca's Grand
Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these
special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves
250 people dead and 600 wounded.
• November 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans
had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad,
Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4 (see Foreign relations of Pakistan).
• November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas
McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of
Burma.
• November 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into
Mount Erebus (in Antarctica) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
[edit] December
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• December 3 – Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before The Who concert
at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• December 3 – The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to
1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
• December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, leads to the deaths of 3
boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
• December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is
succeeded by Charles Haughey.
• December 6 – The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
• December 9 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the
first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
• December 12 – A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.
• December 21 – A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
• December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.
• December 24 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
• December 24 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
• December 26 – In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to
monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
• December 27 – The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal
replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
[edit] Undated
• The One Child Policy is implemented in China in this year.
• VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program.
• The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke
University.
• Sony Walkman first marketed.
• Worldwide per capita oil production reaches an historic peak.
• McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in June.
• Lego's golden age begins.
• Chrysler receives government loan guarantees upon the request of CEO Lee Iacocca.
[edit] Ongoing
• 1979 energy crisis
• Cold War
• One Child Policy
[edit] Fictional
• The Final Episode of the '70s-based Comedy, That '70s Show takes place in December
31, 1979.
• Paul Erdman's The Crash of '79 takes place in 1979
[edit] Births
1979 in other calendars
1979
Gregorian calendar
MCMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita 2731
1428
Armenian calendar
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԸ
Bahá'í calendar 135 – 136
Bengali calendar 1386
Berber calendar 2929
Buddhist calendar 2523
Burmese calendar 1341
Byzantine calendar 7487 – 7488
戊午年十二月初三日
(4615/4675-12-3)
Chinese calendar — to —
己未年十一月十三日
(4616/4676-11-13)
Coptic calendar 1695 – 1696
Ethiopian calendar 1971 – 1972
Hebrew calendar 5739 – 5740
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat 2035 – 2036
- Shaka Samvat 1901 – 1902
- Kali Yuga 5080 – 5081
Holocene calendar 11979
Iranian calendar 1357 – 1358
Islamic calendar 1399 – 1400
Japanese calendar Shōwa 54
(昭和 54 年)
Korean calendar 4312
Thai solar calendar 2522
Unix time 283996800 – 315532799
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[edit] January–February
• January 1 – Brody Dalle, Australian singer
• January 1 – Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
• January 2 – Morena Baccarin, Italo-Brazilian actress
• January 2 – Erica Hubbard, American actress
• January 3 – Francesco Bellissimo, Italian Chef
• January 4 – Charity Rahmer, American actress
• January 6 – Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
• January 7 – Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
• January 8 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian football goalkeeper
• January 10 – Chris Smith, American rapper (Kris Kross)
• January 10 – James Lloyd, British actor
• January 11 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
• January 12 – Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
• January 12 – Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
• January 12 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
• January 15 – Drew Brees, American football player
• January 16 – Aaliyah, American R&B singer/actress (d. 2001)
• January 17 – Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
• January 18 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, song producer and actor
• January 18 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
• January 20 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol
• January 21 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
• January 23 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
• January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress
• January 27 – Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
• January 27 – Rosamund Pike, British actress
• January 29 – BJ Flores, American boxer
• January 31 – Jenny Wolf, German speed skater
• February 1 – Julie Augustyniak, American footballer
• February 2 – Yuichi Tsuchiya, Japanese actor
• February 2 – Fani Halkia, Greek athlete
• February 8 – Martin Rowlands, Irish footballer
• February 9 – Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
• February 9 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American singer and actress
• February 12 – Richard Barnwell, English footballer
• February 12 – Antonio Chatman, American football player
• February 12 – Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
• February 13 – Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
• February 13 – Mena Suvari, American actress
 • February 15 – Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
• February 16 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
• February 18 – Tyrone Burton, American actor
• February 19 – Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
• February 21 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
• February 21 – Carly Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• February 22 – Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player
• February 25 – László Bodnár, Hungarian footballer
• February 28 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
• February 21 – Christopher Hayes, American Journalist
[edit] March–April
• March 4 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
• March 4 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
• March 4 – John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
• March 5 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• March 6 – Érik Bédard, Canadian pitcher
• March 8 – Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane)
• March 9 – Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
• March 11 – Benji Madden and Joel Madden, American musicians (Good Charlotte)
• March 12 – Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines, Babyshambles)
• March 14 – Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
• March 14 – Gao Ling, Chinese badminton player
• March 15 – Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
• March 17 – Samoa Joe, American wrestler
• March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
• March 20 – Freema Agyeman, British actress
• March 20 – Molly Jenson, American musician
• March 23 – Bryan Fletcher, American football player
• March 25 – Lee Pace, American actor
• March 25 – Natasha Yi, Korean-American actress and model
• March 25 – Traxamillion, American producer rapper
• March 25 – Gorilla Zoe, American rapper
• March 30 – Norah Jones, American musician
• April 3 – Grégoire, French singer-songwriter
• April 3 – Zivile Balciunaite, Lithanian long-distance runner
 • April 4 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
• April 8 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish rock guitarist (Children of Bodom)
• April 9 – Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress
• April 9 – Mario Matt, Austrian alpine skier
• April 10 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
• April 10 – Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
• April 10 – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
• April 10 – Dre, American producer
• April 11 – Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
• April 12 – Claire Danes, American actress
• April 12 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress
• April 13 – Baron Davis, American basketball player
• April 14 – Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
• April 14 – Rebecca DiPietro, American model
• April 16 – Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
• April 17 – Sung Si Kyung, South Korean pop/ballad singer
• April 18 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player
• April 18 – Yusuke Kamiji, Japanese actor
• April 18 – Anthony Davidson, English racing driver
• April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress
• April 19 – Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
• April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
• April 22 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
• April 23 – Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
• April 23 – Jaime King, American actress
• April 23 – Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech origin
• April 24 – Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
• April 25 – Andreas Kuettel, Swiss ski jumper
• April 26 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboardist (Children of Bodom)
• April 27 – Travis Meeks, American musician (Days of the New)
• April 28 – Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
[edit] May–June
• May 1 – Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
• May 2 – Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 2 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
• May 4 – Wes Butters, English broadcaster
• May 4 – Lance Bass, American singer
• May 6 – Kerry Ellis, English actress
• May 6 – Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
• May 9 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
• May 9 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
• May 10 – Lee Hyori, South Korean entertainer
• May 12 – Adrian Serioux, Canadian soccer player
• May 13 – Carl Philip, Prince of Sweden
• May 16 – Jessica Morris, American actress
• May 18 – Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• May 19 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• May 19 – Diego Forlan, Urguayan football player
• May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
• May 23 – Matt Flynn (musician), drummer for the alternative band, Maroon 5
• May 24 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• May 25 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby union player
• May 26 – Ashley Massaro, American wrestler and model
• May 29 – Casey Sheehan, American soldier, son of peace activist Cindy Sheehan (d.
2004)
• May 29 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• May 30 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• June 5 – Pete Wentz, American musician and lyricist
• June 8 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
• June 9 – Émilie Loit, French tennis player
• June 12 – Dallas Clark, American football player
• June 12 – Jodie Prenger, British actress
• June 12 – Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter
• June 12 – Diego Milito, Argentine football player
• June 13 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
• June 14 – Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
• June 15 – Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
• June 16 – Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
• June 18 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
• June 18 – Chris Neil, Canadian ice hockey player
 • June 18 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• June 19 – John Duddy, Irish boxer
• June 19 – Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress
• June 22 – Sandra Klösel, German tennis player
• June 23 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
• June 24 – Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
• June 24 – Petra Nemcova, Czech model
• June 26 – Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic)
• June 28 – Randy McMichael, American football player
• June 29 – Barış Akarsu, Turkish musician (d. 2007)
• June 29 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• June 30 – Rick Gonzalez, American actor
[edit] July–August
• July 1 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial arts fighter
• July 2 – Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
• July 2 – Ayiesha Woods, American singer
• July 3 – Sayuri Katayama, Japanese actress, singer and lyricist
• July 3 – Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
• July 5 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
• July 5 – Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
• July 7 – Gucci Mane, American rapper
• July 9 – Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
• July 14 – Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
• July 15 – Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
• July 16 – Kinya Kotani, Japanese singer
• July 18 – Rick Baxter, American politician
• July 21 – David Carr, American football player
• July 24 – Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
• July 24 – Stat Quo, American rapper
• July 24 – Rose Byrne, Australian actress
• July 26 – Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• July 26 – Derek Paravicini, British pianist
• July 26 – Tamyra Gray, American singer
• July 26 – Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 27 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
 • July 27 – Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
• July 30 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
• July 30 – Show Luo, Taiwanese singer
• August 1 – Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
• August 1 – Jason Momoa, American actor
• August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
• August 5 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
• August 4 – Patryk Dominik Sztyber, Polish metal musician
• August 8 – Azumi Kawashima, Japanese idol and AV idol
• August 10 – Joanna Garcia, American actress
• August 10 – Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
• August 11 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• August 12 – Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
• August 13 – Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
• August 15 – Dan Marshall, Canadian hockey player
• August 16 – Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
• August 19 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• August 22 – Matt Walters, American football player
• August 24 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
• August 26 – Jamal Lewis, American football player
• August 26 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
• August 27 – Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
• August 27 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver
• August 28 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
• August 28 – Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
• August 29 – Justine Pasek, Miss Universe 2002
• August 30 – Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
• August 30 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
• August 31 – Mickie James, American professional wrestler
• August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
• August 31 – Simon Neil, Scottish Musician (vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), Biffy Clyro
Marmaduke Duke
[edit] September–October
• September 1 – Neg Dupree, British comedian
• September 2 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
• September 3 – Julio Cesar, Brazilian football goalkeeoer
• September 4 – Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
• September 5 – John Carew, Norwegian footballer
• September 5 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• September 6 – Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
• September 8 – Pink, American singer
• September 10 – Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
• September 12 – Jay McGraw, American author, son of TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw
• September 13 – Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
• September 14 – Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
• September 14 – Kamya Panjabi, Indian television actress
• September 15 – Amy Davidson, American actress
• September 16 – Fanny, French singer
• September 17 – Akin Ayodele, American football player
• September 18 – Alison Lohman, American actress
• September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
• September 20 – David Long, New Zealand musician
• September 23 – Lote Tuqiri, Australian rugby union player
• September 24 – Justin Bruening, American actor and model
• September 24 – Erin Chambers, American actress
• September 25 – Rashad Evans a fighter in the MMA sport UFC
• September 26 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
• September 28 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder
• September 29 – Artika Sari Devi, Putri Indonesia 2004
• September 30 – Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist
• September 30 – Vince Chong, Malaysian singer
• October 1 – Rudi Johnson, American football player
• October 1 – Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union player
• October 3 – John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
• October 3 – Matt Davis (comedian), American stand-up comedian
• October 4 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
• October 7 – Tang Wei, Chinese actress
• October 7 – Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
• October 9 – Vernon Fox, American football player
• October 9 – Brandon Routh, American actor
 • October 10 – Mýa, American singer and actress
• October 10 – Wu Chun, Bruneian actor, model, and singer
• October 10 – Nicolas Massu, Chilean tennis player
• October 11 – Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan singer (Cobra Starship)
• October 13 – Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
• October 13 – Mamadou Niang, Senegalese footballer
• October 14 – Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
• October 16 – Erin Brown, American actress
• October 17 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
• October 19 – Ne-Yo, American singer and songwriter
• October 20 – Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby union player
• October 20 – John Krasinski, American actor
• October 23 – Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
• October 28 – Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player
• October 30 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
• October 31 – Evangelist Raj Kumar Ganta, the wellknown evangelist and founder of
APPLE Association.
[edit] November–December
• November 1 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player
• November 1 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
• November 3 – Tim McIlrath, American rock singer, songwriter (Rise Against)
• November 3 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
• November 4 – Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
• November 6 – Lamar Odom, American basketball player
• November 6 – Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
• November 7 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
• November 8 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
• November 9 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican-American actress
• November 12 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
• November 12 – Matt Stevic, Australian rules football umpire
• November 13 – Ron Artest, American basketball player
• November 14 – Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• November 14 – Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
• November 14 – Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe 1999
• November 17 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
• November 19 – Larry Johnson (American football), American football player
• November 20 – Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
• November 21 – Kim Dong Wan, South Korean singer and actor
• November 22 – Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
• November 22 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
• November 23 – Ivica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier
• November 23 – Kelly Brook, English actress/model
• November 27 – Ricky Carmichael, American motorcycle and stock car racer
• November 27 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
• November 28 – Jamie Korab, Canadian curler
• November 28 – Hakeem Seriki, American rapper (Chamillionaire)
• November 29 – Jayceon Taylor, American rapper (The Game)
• December 3 – Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
• December 3 – Rock Cartwright, American football player
• December 3 – Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
• December 5 – Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
• December 7 – Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
• December 7 – Sara Bareilles, American singer, songwriter and pianist
• December 8 – Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor
• December 9 – Olivia Lufkin, English-Japanese singer, songwriter
• December 14 – Michael Owen, English footballer
• December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor
• December 16 – Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
• December 16 – Flo Rida, American rapper
• December 17 – William Green, American football player
• December 17 – Matt Murley, American hockey player
• December 18 – Amy Grabow, American actress
• December 19 – Kevin Devine, American songwriter and musician
• December 19 – Paola Rey, Colombian actress and model
• December 22 – Charles Gayton, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
• December 23 – Summer Altice, American model and actress
• December 23 – Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
• December 26 – Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
• December 26 – Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
• December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American singer and guitarist
 • December 27 – Carson Palmer, American football player
• December 28 – James Blake, American tennis pro
• December 29 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor
• December 30 – Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
• December 31 – Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
• December 31 – Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)
• December 31 – Stephanus de Bruyn, South African Rugby star(Transvaal)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–March
• January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• January 4 – Vincent Korda, Hungarian art director (b. 1897)
• January 5 – Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
• January 5 – Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
• January 8 – Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b. 1898)
• January 11 – Jack Soo, Japanese-American actor (b. 1917)
• January 13 – Donny Hathaway, African-American musician (Where Is The Love?) (b.
1945)
• January 16 – Peter Butterworth, English actor (b.1919)
• January 16 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
• January 25 – Robertson Hare, English actor (b.1891)
• January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United
States (b. 1908)
• February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b. 1957)
• February 2 – Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903)
• February 3 – Aaron Douglas, American painter (b. 1899)
• February 7 – Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
• February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894)
• February 14 – Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917)
• February 15 – George Dunning, cartoon director and animator (b. 1920)
• February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• February 23 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
• March 1 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
• March 1 – Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903)
• March 11 – Victor Kilian, American actor (b. 1891)
 • March 15 – Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1896)
• March 19 – Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)
• March 22 – Ben Lyon, American actor (b. 1901)
• March 23 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• March 24 – Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (b. 1915)
• March 26 – Jean Stafford, American writer (b. 1915)
• March 28 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia
(b. 1917)
• March 30 – Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)
[edit] April–June
Mary Pickford

John Wayne

• April 1 – Barbara Luddy, American actress (b. 1908)

• April 4 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b.
1928)
• April 4 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
• April 10 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
• April 23 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b.
1946)
• April 24 – John Carroll, American actor (b. 1906)
 • May 2 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• May 6 – Milton Ager, American songwriter (b. 1893)
• May 11 – Joan Chandler, American actress (b. 1923)
• May 11 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass and folk singer (b. 1914)
• May 11 – Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b. 1912)
• May 16 – Robert Florey, French screenwriter (b. 1900)
• May 16 – A. Philip Randolph, African-American civil rights leader (b. 1889)
• May 22 – Kurt Jooss, German dancer and choreographer (b. 1901)
• May 26 – George Brent, Irish actor (b. 1899)
• May 29 – Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
• June 1 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
• June 1 – Ján Kadár, Czechslovakian film director (b. 1918)
• June 1 – Jack Mulhall, American actor (b. 1887)
• June 2 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
• June 4 – Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (b.1903)
• June 6 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
• June 11 – John Wayne, American actor (The Searchers, True Grit) (b. 1907)
• June 13 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1930)
• June 14 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer and composer (b. 1946)
• June 16 – Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
• June 17 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• June 19 – Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
• June 21 – Angus MacLise, American rock percussionist (Velvet Underground) (b. 1938)
• June 22 – Louis Chiron, Monacan Grand Prix driver (b. 1899)
• June 25 – Dave Fleischer, American animator (b. 1894)
• June 29 – Lowell George, American rock musician (Little Feat) (b. 1945)
[edit] July–September
• July 3 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
• July 8 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• July 8 – Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• July 8 – Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• July 10 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (Boston Pops) (b. 1894)
• July 12 – Minnie Riperton, American R&B singer (Lovin' You) (b. 1947)
• July 13 – Corinne Griffith, American actress (b. 1894)
• July 13 – Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
• July 15 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican President (b. 1911)
• July 16 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
• July 22 – Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
• July 28 – George Seaton, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
• July 29 – Bill Todman, American game show producer (b. 1916)
• August 2 – Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of the APRA Party
(b. 1895)
• August 2 – Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
• August 3 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• August 6 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
• August 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
• August 10 – Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
• August 12 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
• August 16 – John Diefenbaker, Canadian Prime Minister (b. 1895)
• August 17 – Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
• August 19 – Mary Millington, British porn star (b. 1945)
• August 19 – Joel Teitelbaum, Hungarian Rebbe (b. 1887)
• August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
• August 24 – Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (b. 1912)
• August 25 – Stan Kenton, American jazz pianist (b. 1911)
• August 26 – Alvin Karpis, last of America's depression era criminals. (b. 1907)
• August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India
(assassinated) (b. 1900)
• August 31 – Sally Rand, American dancer (b. 1904)
• September 1 – Doris Kenyon, American actress (b. 1897)
• September 2 – Felix Aylmer, British actor (b. 1889)
• September 4 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
• September 5 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1884)
• September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright (b. 1884)
• September 8 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• September 9 – Norrie Paramor, British music producer (b. 1914)
• September 10 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist (b. 1922)
• September 14 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
 • September 20 – Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1907)
• September 20 – Ludvík Svoboda, president of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• September 22 – Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• September 24 – Carl Laemmle, Jr., American film studio executive (b. 1908)
• September 26 – John Cromwell, American film director and actor (b. 1887)
• September 26 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1911)
• September 27 – Gracie Fields, British actress (b. 1898)
• September 27 – Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish Guitarist (Paul McCartney & Wings) (b.
1953)
• September 28 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
• September 29 – Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea
(executed) (b. 1924)
[edit] October–December
• October 1 – Dorothy Arzner, American film director (b. 1897)
• October 1 – Roy Harris, American composer (b. 1898)
• October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
• October 10 – Dr Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
• October 12 – Katharine Blodgett, American Scientist and inventor (b. 1898)
• October 13 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
• October 13 – Clarence Muse, American actor (b. 1889)
• October 13 – Archibald Roosevelt, American conservative political activist, son of
President Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1894)
• October 16 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• October 17 – S.J. Perelman, American humorist (b. 1904)
• October 22 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
• October 26 – Park Chung-Hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
• October 30 – Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887)
• October 30 – Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
• November 1 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
• November 5 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• November 6 – Chick Evans, American golf champion (b. 1890)
• November 11 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian film composer (b. 1894)
• November 17 – Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian author and psychiatrist (b. 1895)
• November 21 – Marie Byles, Australian conservationist (b. 1900)
• November 21 – Paul Wexler, American actor (b. 1929)
• November 23 – Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
 • November 29 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
• December 3 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b. 1905)
• December 10 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)
• December 13 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
• December 15 – Ethel Lackie, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
• December 22 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1902)
• December 23 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
• December 25 – Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
• December 25 – Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
• December 25 – Lee Bowman, American actor (b. 1914)
• December 27 – Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of
Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
• December 30 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
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• Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
• Medicine – Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
• Literature – Odysseas Elytis
• Peace – Mother Teresa
• Economics – Theodore Schultz, Arthur Lewis
[edit] Templeton Prize
• Rev. Nikkyo Niwano
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Important Dates in Indian History

December 21, 2006
Important Dates in Indian History
BC
3000-1500 Indus Valley Civilisation
576 Birth of Gautam Buddha
527 Birth of Mahavir
327-326 Alexander’s invasion of India. It opened a land route between India and Europe
313 Accession of Chandragupta Maurya according to Jain traditions
305 Defeat of Seleucus at the hands of Chandragupta Maurya
273-232 Ashoka’s reign
261 Conquest of Kalinga
145-101 Region of Elara, the Chola King of Sri Lanka
58 Beginning of Vikrami era
AD
78 Beginning of Saka era
120 Accession of Kanishka
320 Commencement of Gupta era. the golden age of Hindu India
380 Accession of Vikramaditya
405-411 Visit of Chinese traveller Fa-hien
415 Accession of Kumara Gupta I
455 Accession of Skando Gupta
606-647 Harshavardhan’s reign
712 First invasion in Sind by Arabs
836 Accession of King Bhoja of Kannauj
985 Accession of Rajaraja,the Chola ruler
998 Accession of Sultan Mahmud
1001 First invasion of India by Mahmud Chazni who defeated jaipal, ruler of Punjab
1025 Destruction of Somnath Temple by Mahmud Ghzni
1191 First Battle of Tarain
1192 Second Battle of Tarain
1206 Accession of Qutab-ud-din Aibak to the throne of Delhi
1210 Death of Qutub-ud-din Aibak
1221 Changes Khan invaded India (Mongol invasion)
1236 Accession of Razia Sultan to the throne of Delhi
1240 Razia Sultan dies
1296 Accession of Ala–ud-din Khilji
1316 Ala-ud-din Khilji dies
1325 Accession of Muhammad-bin Tughlaq
1327 Shifting of Capital from Delhi to Daulatabad to Deccan by the Tughlaqs
1336 Foundation of Vijayanagar empire in the South
1351 Accession of Feroze Shah
1398 Invasion of India by Timur Lang
1469 Birth of Gurunanak
1494 Accession of Babar in Farghana
1497-98 First voyage of Vasco da Gama to India( discovery of sea route to India via the Cape of
Good Hope
1526 First Battle of Panipat, Babar defeated Ibrahim Lodhi; Foundation of Mughal rule by Babar
1527 Battle of Khanya’Babar defeated Rana Sanga
1530 Death of Babar and accession of Humayun
1539 Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayan and became India’s emperor
1540 Battle of Kannauj
1555 Humayan recaptured the throne of Delhi
1556 Second Battle of Panipat
1565 Battle of Talikota
1576 Battle of Haldighati; Rana Pratap defeated by Akbar
1582 Din-e-Illahi founded by Akbar
1597 Death of Rana Pratap
1600 East India Company established
1605 Death of Akbar and accession of Jehangir
1606 Execution of Guru Arjun Dev
1611 Jehangir marries Nur jahan.
1616 Sir Thomas Roe visits Jehangir
1627 Birth of Shivaji and death of Jehangir
1628 Shahjahan becomes emperor of India
1631 Death of Mumtaj Mahal
1634 The British permitted to trade in india in Bengal
1659 Accession of Aurangzeb, Shahjahan imprisoned
1665 Shivaji imprisoned by Aurangzeb
1666 Death of Shahjahan
1675 Execution of Teg Bahadur,the ninth Guru of Sikhs
1680 Death of Shivaji
1707 Death of Aurangzeb
1708 Death of Guru Gobind Singh
1739 Nadir Shah invades India
1757 Battle of Plassey, establishment of Britishn political rule in India at the hands of Lord
Clive.
1761 Third Battle of Panipat;Shah Alam II becomes India’s emperor
1764 Battle of Buxar
1765 Clive appointed Company’s Governor in India
1767-69 First Mysore war
1770 The great Bangal Famine
1780 Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1780-84 Second Mysore War
1784 Pitt’s Omdoa Act
1790-92 Third Mysore War
1793 The Permanent Settlement of Bengal
1799 Fourth Mysore War- Death of Tipu Sultan
1802 Treaty of Bassein
1809 Treaty of Amritsar
1829 Practice of Sati Prohibited
1830 Raja-Ram Mohun Roy, founder of Brahmo Samaj,visits England.
1833 Death of Raja Ram Mohun Roy.
1839 Death of Maharaj Ranjit Singh
1839-42 First Afghan War
1845-46 First Anglo-Sikh War
1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War
1853 First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta
1857 The sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence
1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
1869 Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
1885 Foundation of Indian National Congress
1889 Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru
1897 Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose
1904 Tibet Expedition
1905 First partition of Bengal under Lord Curzon
1906 Foundation of Muslim League
1911 Delhi Darbar;King and Queen visit India;Delhi becomes the capital of India
1916 World War 1 begins
1916 Lucknow Pact signed by Muslim League and Congress
1918 World War 1 ends
1919 Montague-Chelmsfor Reforms introduced,Jallianwala Bagh massacreat Amritsar
1920 Khilafar Movement launched
1927 Boycott of Simon Commission,broadcasting started in India
1928 Death of lal Lajpat Rai ( Sher-e-Punjab)
1929 Lord Orwaom’s Pact, resolution of complete independence passed at Lahore Congress
1930 Civil Disobedience Movement launched;Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi(April 6, 1970 )
1931 Gandhi-Irwin Pact
1935 Government of India Act enacted
1937 Provincial Autonomy,Congress forms ministers
1939 World War II begins (September i )
1941 Death of Rabindranath Tagore, escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India
1942 Arrival of Cripps Mission in India, ‘Quit India’ movement launched (Aug.8)
1943-44 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose forms provincial Azad Hindu Hukumat and Indian
National Army, Bengal famine
1945 Trial of Indian National Army at Red Fort;Shimla Conference World War II ends
1946 British Cabinet Mission visits India; Interim Government formed at the Centre,
1947 Division of India; India and Pakistan form separate independent dominions
1948 Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (Jan.30); integration of princely states.
1949 Cease-fire in Kashmir,indian Constitution signed and adopted(Nov.26)
1950 India becomes a Sovereign Democratic Republic (Jan.26)and Constitution of India comes
into force
1951 First Five-year Plan.First Asian Games held in Delhi
1952 First General Elections of the Lok Sabha
1953 Conquest of Mt.Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary
1956 Second Five-Year Plan launched
1957 Second General Elkections;decimal coinage introduced,
Liberation of Goa.
1962 Third General Elections in India; Chinese attack on India (Dec 20 )
1963 Nagaland becomes the 16th indian State
1964 Death of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
1965 Pakistan attacks India
1966 Tashkent Pact;Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri; Mrs. Indira Gandhi elected Prime Minister of
India.
1967 Fourth General Elections;Dr Zakir Hussain elected the third president of India
1969 V.V.Giri elected President of India, Nationalisation of the leading banks by Presidential
ordinance.
1970 Meghalaya designated as autonomous state.
1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes a State;Indo-Pak War, Bangladesh is born
1972 Shimla agreement;Death of C.Rajagopalachari
1973 Mysore State renamed Karnataka
1974 India explodes a nuclear device; Fakhuruddin Ali Ahmed elected as fifth President Sikkim
becomes on associate State of India
1975 India launches ‘Aryabhata’; Sikkim becomes 22nd State of the Indian Union; State of
Emergency is declared
1976 India and China establish diplomatic relations
1977 Sixth General Elections; Janata Party gets majority in Lok Sabha; Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
elected sixth President of India
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as Prime Minister,Charan Singh becomes Prime Minister;Charan
Singh resigns ( Aug 20 ) Sixth Lok Sabha dissolved
1980 Seventh General Elections;Congress I comes to power;Mrs Indira Gandhi sworn in as
Prime Minister; Sanjay Gandhi dies in an air crash, India Launches SLV-3 into space carrying
Rohini Satellite
1982 Longest bridge in Asia opened ( March 2 ); Acharya J.B. Kripalani dies ( March 19)
INSAT.1A launched; Giani Zail Singh elected President of India (July 15) Over 500 persons
killed in Gujarat Cyclone ( Nov.5); Acharua Vinobha dies (Nov 15) IX Asian Games
inaugurated (Nov 19)
1983 CHOGM held in New Delhi
1984 Operation Blue Star in Punjab; Rakesh Sharma goes into space; Mrs. Indira Gandhi
assassinated; Rajiv Gandhi becomes PM
1985 Rajiv-Longowal accord signed; Sant H.S. Longowal killed elections in Punjab; Assam
accord; VII Five-Year Plan launched 1986 Mizoram accord.
1987 R.Venkataraman elected President; Shankar Dayal Sharma elected Vice-President of India,
Bofors gun and Fairfax controversies
1989 Ram Shilanyas Puja at Ayodhyat; India’s first IRBM ‘ Agni’ successfully launched from
Orissa (May 22); Trishul Missile test fised (June 5); Second successful launch of Prithvi (Sept
27); Rajiv Government loses poll and resigns (Nov.29); Jawahar Rozgar Yojna launched
(Nov.29);National front leader V.P. Singh sworn in as seventh PM, New cabinet sworn in
(Dec.2), Ninth Lok Sabha constituted
1990 Last of IPKF return home (March 25); Indian Airlines A-320 Airbus Crash (Feb. 14);
Janata Dal splits; BJP withdraws support to the Government;Advani takes out Rath Yatra and is
arrested, Mandal Report implemented announced by V.P. Singh Violence in Ayodhya due to
Ram Janam Bhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute
1991 Gulf War breaks out (Jan. 17); Rajiv Gandhi assassinated (May 21); X Lok Sabha
constituted (June 20); P. V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister
1992 India establishes full diplomatic ties with Israel (Jan. 29); Bharat Ratna and Oscar winner
Satyajit Ray dies (April 23); S.D.Sharma elected President (July 25); INS Shakti-first
indigeneously built submarine was launched on Feb. 7
1993 Ordinance to acquire 67.33 acres in Ayodhya (Jan 7); Massive security falls in BJP rally;
Wave of bombing leaves 300 dead in Bombay; Insat-2B becomes fully operational; Earthquake
in Maharashtra
1994 Government monopoly over civil aviation ends; Storm over GATT treaty;Plague outbreak;
Sushmita Sen-Miss Universe; Aishwarya Rai-Miss World
1995 Mayawati First Dalit Chief Minister of UP; BJP comes to power in Maharashtra and
Gujarat, Janata Dal in Karnataka and Congress in Orissa; Indian National Congress (T) formed;
President’s Rule in UP after fall of Mayawati; INSAT 2C and IRSI-C launched
1996 Hawala takes toll of several Union Ministers ans opposition leaders; PSLV D3 launched on
March 21 with IRSP-3 ushering new era in India space programme; Eleventh Lok Sabha
Elections held on April 127-BJP emerges as the single largest party
1997 On August 15, India celebrated its 50th year of Independence
1998 Death of Mother Teressa; Atal Behari Vajpayee becomes Indian Prime Minister; India
explodes its second nuclear device (Pokhran II)
1999 India Airlines plane IC-814 hijacked by terrorists and taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, on
Dec 24, 1999. Three militants released by Indian govt.for the freedom of hostages kept as
passengers. In June 1999, Flt. Lt. K. Nachiketa, the captured Indian pilot, released by Pakistan
after eight days of captivity. ‘Operation Vijay’ launched by Indian Army to flush out Pakistani
infiltrators inside LoC in the Kargil sector of J&K, India wins battle.
2000Â US President Bill Clinton visits India during March 2000. Three new states Chhatisgarh,
Uttaranchal and Jharkhand created.India’s population crossed one billion mark.
2001 ‘Agra Summit’ between India and Pakistan in July 2001; Worst natural calamity of India:
Gujarat Earthquake in Jan 2001; ‘Tehelka.Com’ screened video tapes which opened the murky
world of arms deal and its kickbacks to Indian Army officials, ministers and politicians in March
2001; VI th census of India (since Independence) concluded in March 2001. Enron bids farewall
to Indian energy sector in August 2001; GSLV
launched successfully in April 2001 and PSLC-C3 launch conducted in October 2001.
2002Â 71-year old missile scientist, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, is elected President
of India; One of the most harrific communal roits in recent history, the Godhra Incident, happens
on Feb 27, 2002 in Gujarat;National Water Policy announced in April, which aims at integrating
water resources develpment and management for optimal and sustainable utilisation.
2003Â Formation of Strategic Forces Command (SFO) and the Nuclear Command Authority
(NCA) by India; Air Marshal Teja Mohan Asthana named first commander in chief of the SFC;
Advanced multi purpose satellite, INSAT-3A is successfully launched into space from Kourou of
French Guyana; CBI forms an Economic Intelligence Wing to tackle white-collar crime in June;
India’s adnaced communication satellite INSAT-3E is launched by an European rocket from the
spaceport of Kourou of French Guyana in December
2004 NDA government ousted by the Congress and its allies in the General Election; CongressÂ
President Ms Sonia Gandhi opts against becoming Prime Minister of India despite being in a
strong position; Congress and its allies forms government at the centre under the Prime
Ministership of Dr. Manmohan Singh.
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These are the some memorable dates of Indian history.In which some great Events were held &
some eminent personalities were born.
These are some of the important dates of Indian history & culture , useful for general knowledge
purposes.

B. C.
3000-2500 Indus Valley Civilization
563 Birth of Gautam Buddha; Nirvana (483 B.C.)
599 Birth of Mahavir; Nirvana (527 B.C.)
327-326 Alexander’s invasion of India. It opened the land route
between India and Europe
273-239 Ashoka’s Reign
261 Battle of Kalinga, Ashoka renounced war and violence
58 Beginning of Vikram Era (Calender)
A.D.
78 Beginning of Saka Era; Accession of Kanishka
320 Beginning of Gupta dynasty
405-411 Visit of Fahien (Chinese Traveller) to India
606-647 Harsh Vardhan’s Reign
629-645 Hieun Tsang’s travel in India.
712 Arab Invasion of Sind (by Mohd-bin-Qasim)
1001-1026 Sultan Mahmud Ghazni’s attacks on India
1025-26 Som Nath Temple sacked by Mahmud Ghazni
1191 . First Battle of Tarain, Mohammed Gori was defeated by
Prithvi Raj, the Chauhan king of Delhi
1192 Second Battle of Tarain, Mohammed Gori defeated
Prithvi Raj Chauhan
1336 Vijayanagar Empire founded in South India
1347 Bahmani Kingdom founded in South India
1398 Invasion of India by Taimur Lang; Delhi sacked
1469 Birth of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism
1498 Vasco-de-Gama discovered the sea-route to India via the
Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Calicut
1526 Babur’s invasion; First Battle of Panipat; foundation of
Mughal Rule in North India
1556 Second Battle of Panipat; Death of Humayun, Accession
of Akbar to the throne
1564-65 Battle of Talikota; abolition of Jazia

1576 Battle of Haldighati

1600 East India Company established in India
1605 Death of Akbar and accession of Jahangir
1627 Birth of Shivaji
1680 Death of Shivaji
1707 Death of Aurangzeb; Death of Guru Govind Singh; fall of the
Mughal Empire begins
1739 Nadir Shah invaded India; The Peacock Throne taken away
by him to Iran
1757 Battle of Plassey
1760 Battle of Wandiawash; End of French power in India
1761 Third Battle of Panipat
1764 Battle of Buxar
1793 Permanent Settlement in Bengal
1799 Fourth Mysore War; Death of Tipu Sultan; Partition of Mysore;
Ranjit Singh occupied Lahore and made it capital.
1818 The fourth and the last Anglo Marthatta War.
1833 Death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1835 Introduction of English as medium of instruction.
1853 The First Indian Railway line opened from Bombay to Thane; The first telegraph
communication
1856 (23rd July), Birth of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1857 (10th May), First War of Indian Independence
1858 End of East India Company’s Rule; Queen Victoria’s Proclamation
1861 Birth of Rabindranath Tagore 1869 (2nd Oct.) Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
1885 (28th Dec.) Indian National Congress founded by A. O. Hume : First session of Congress
in Bombay in 1885 presided by W.C. Bannerji
1889 (14th Nov.) Birth of Jawahar Lai Nehru
1905 First Partition of Bengal
1906 Formation of the All India Muslim League.
1909 Indian Councils Act or Morley Minto Reforms Bill passed
1911 Partition of Bengal revoked; Delhi made capital of British India
1914 (28th July) World War I started
1918 (11th Nov.) End of World War I
1919 Montague Chelmsford Reforms; Tragedy of Jaliyan Wala Bagh at Amritsar (13th April)
1928 Visit of Simon Commission; its boycott by the Congress; Death of Lala Lajpat Rai
1929 Congress resolution passed for complete independence at Lahore Session under the
presidentship of Jawahar Lai Nehru
1935 Government of India Act 1935 passed
1937 Inauguration of Provincial Autonomy
1941 Subash Chandra Bose escapes from India, Death of Rabindra Nath Tagore
1942 Quit India Resolution by Indian National Congress (8th Aug.)
1945 Simla Conference and the failure of the Wavell Plan : I.N.A.
Trials at Red Fort, Delhi
1947 (15th Aug.) India achieves independence; Partition of India; Asian Relations Conference
(23rd March)
1948 Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (30th Jan.)
1950 India becomes a Sovereign Democratic Republic (26th Jan.),
Death of Sardar Patel (15th Dec.)
1953 Mt. Everest conquered by Sherpa Tenzing and E.P. Hillary on May 29.
1961 Liberation of Goa
1962 Chinese attack on India (Oct. 20)
1965 Indo-Pak War
1966 Tashkent Pact between India and Pakistan
1969 Death of President Zakir Hussain on May 3;
V. V. Giri elected President of India; Split in the Indian National Congress.
1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty signed on 9th Aug;
2nd Indo-Pak War (Dec. 3-17); defeat of Pakistan, liberation of Bangla Desh.

1972 Reorganisation of the North-Eastern region—Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura became

full-fledged States and new Union Territories Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram came into being
(Jan. 20, 21);
Indo Bangla Desh Treaty; Indo-Pak Simla Agreement on 3rd July.
1974 India’s nuclear blast; the historic Constitution (Amendment) Bill passed making Sikkim as
an associate State of India (Sept. 4); India and Portugal restore diplomatic relations.
1975 Sikkim votes for full-fledged statehood with Indian Union (April 15); Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
passes away (April 17); India’s entry into Space age by launching ‘Aryabhatta’ (April 19th);
President gives assent to the Constitution (36th Amendment) Bill making Sikkim the 22nd State
of the Union; Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s election set aside (June 12); Proclamaton of Emergency to
‘forestall internal disturbances (June 25).
1976 The four Indian News Agencies merged into a single News Agency known as ‘Samachar’;
INS Udaygiri, India’s Third leander-class frigate commissioned (Feb. 18); India-Sri Lanka
boundary pact (signed on March 23) comes into force (May 10); India and Pakistan agree to
restore diplomatic ties and reach accord on overflights, road and air-links (May 14); Krishna
Waters Dispute Settled; Agreement reached in Delhi on establishment of a Non-Aligned News
Pool (July); President’s assent to the 42nd Constitution (Amendment) Bill (Dec. 18).
1977 Defeat of Mrs. Indira Gandhi in the election. Morarji Desai takes oath of office as Prime
Minister of India (March 24); Internal and External emergencies withdrawn; freedom of the
Press restored; Neelam Sanjiva Reddy sworn in as the sixth Presidentof India (July 25).
1978 Congress (I) recognised as the main opposition party in the Lok Sabha (April 12); Shah
Commission holds Mrs. Indira Gandhi responsible for abuse of authority and misuse of power
during the internal emergency (May 15); India launches world’s biggest adult literacy Plan
(October 2nd).
1979 Constitution Amendment 44th Bill gets President’s assent (April 30th); Hidayatullah sworn
in as Vice-President (Aug. 31); Charan Singh quits Janata Party (July 16); President dissolves
Sixth Lok Sabha and orders fresh elections (Aug. 22); Lok Dal formed (Sept. 26); Jai Prakash
Narain dies in Patna (Oct.
1980 Mrs. Gandhi re-emerges as a dominant force, 22 member cabinet at Centre sworn in (Jan.
14); Bharat Ratna etc. Awards restored, 10 year extension of seat reservation for SCs and STs
(Jan. 25); Grand view of solar eclipse (Feb. 16); 42nd Amendment struck down (May 9); Death
of Sanjay Gandhi, Death of Ex-President V.V. Giri, India launches first Satellite using its own
Satellite Launching Vehicle (July 18).
1981 The 8th International Film Festival concluded in New Delhi (Jan. 17th); National
Development Council approved the revised 6th Plan draft (Feb. 14); Launching of Rohini
Satellite in Space (May 31st); Rohini burns up (June 9th); Congress (I) declared Indian National
Congress (July 23rd).
1982 Rajasahi Air Port Amritsar becomes International Airport (Jan. 3rd); The 21 member
Indian scientific expedition headed by Dr. S.Z. Quasim lands on Antarctica (Jan. 9th); Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi announces a redefined 20 point programme (Jan. 20); Accord on the
purchase of 150 Mirage- 2000 Jets by India from France signed inNew Delhi (Feb. 6th); Insat-IA
launched (April 10th); Election of President and Gyani Zail Singh elected as seventh President of
India (July 12 and 15th); INSAT-IA shut off due to mechanical disorder (Sept. 6th); Former
Chief Minister of Jammu- Kashmir Shaikh Abdullah died (Sept. 8th); India and France N-Fuel
pact signed (Nov. 26); Ninth Asian Games held inNew Delhi.
1983 Rohini 560 rocket with a technological payload successfully launched from the Shri
Harikota Range (Jan. 13); The 7th Non-Aligned Summit opens in New Delhi (March 7); India
and France sign N. Fuel pact (March 23); Madras Atomic Power Project at Kalpakkam becomes
critical (ready for use) (July 2); INS AT-IB launched into space (Aug. 30); India and West
Germany conclude an agreement for the Supply of Spare parts for the Tarapur Atomic Power
Plant (Nov. 2).

1984 Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi dedicates INSAT-1 System to the nation (Feb. 11);
Rakesh Sharma in space (April 2-11); Military action in Punjab (June 2); Assassination of Mrs.
Indira Gandhi (Oct. 31); Rajiv Gandhi, new Prime Minister of India (Oct. 31); Bhopal Gas
tragedy (Dec. 2); Fourth Expedition Party reaches Antarctica (Dec. 24-27); Rajiv Gandhi elected
leader of the Congress Party and becomes Prime Minister (Dec. 31).
1985 Anti Defection Bill passed by the Parliament unanimously, (Jan. 3); Punjab Accord (July
24); Assam Accord (Aug. 15); Akali Chief Sant H.S. Longowal, assassinated (Sep. 8).
1986 Assassins of Smt. Indira Gandhi sentenced to death (Jan. 22); Lok Sabha passed Muslim
Women Bill (May 6); Laldenga and Congress (I) sign pact on Mizoram (June 25); Bill making
Mizoram State passed by the Parliament (Aug. 6); 2nd SAARC summit at Bangalore (Nov. 16);
Arunachal Pradesh Statehood Bill approved by Parliament (Dec. 3); Death of Smita Patil (Dec.
13).
1987 Former P. M. Charan Singh dead (May 29); Venkataraman assumes Presidency (July 25);
Dr. S. D. Sharma assumes as Vice President (Sept. 3); Diwrala Sati episode (Sept. 4); Soviet
Festival starts in New Delhi (Nov. 21); 3rd South Asian Federation Games in Calcutta (Nov. 21-
26).
1988 With the induction of the first Nuclear Sub-marine (INS- Chakra) India joins the N-
mariline Club (Feb. 3); India’s first remote sensing satellite (IRS-l-A) launched from Russia
(March 17); ‘Varun’ successfully completes its mission (April 15); INSAT-1 C launched into
space from French Guiana (July 22); Supreme Court confirms death penalty of Satwant Singh
and Kehar Singh in Indira Gandhi murder case (Aug. 3); Lok Pal Ayukt Bill taken back (Dec. 6).
1989 Kumbh started at Allahabad after an interval of 12 yrs. France Festival in India inaugurated
(Feb. 3); Supreme Court decides the compensation amount for Bhopal gas victims (Feb. 14);
Narora nuclear power station starts production (March 12); Thakkar Commission’s Report
published (March 14); Death of Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna (March 17); Indo-Nepal Trade
Treaty expired (March 23); Successful test of ‘Agni’ (May 22); Nhava Sheva port dedicated to
the nation (May 26); Kudal Commission report published (Aug. 7); Prasar Bharti and Lok Pal
Bills introduced in Parliament (Dec. 28).
A members of 9th expedition party to Antarctica died during mission (Jan. 9); Successful launch
of INSAT-1D (June 12); V.P. Singh announced 27% reservation to Backward classes on the
basis of Mandal Commission Report (Aug. 6); Successful test of ‘Akash’ (Aug. 14); Indian
warship ‘Andman’ sank in Bay of Bengal (Aug. 21); Chandra Shekhar takes over as P.M. (Nov.
10).
1991 P.V. Narsimha Rao became Prime Minister (June 21); Shiv Raj Patil of Cong. (I) elected
Speaker of 10th Lok Sabha (July
10) ; IRS-IB launched from Baikanoor (Aug. 29); Earthquake in Garhwal of U.P. takes a heavy
toll of life (Oct. 20); Karnataka ordinance on Cauvery Water held invalid by the Supreme Court
(Nov. 22); Li Feng of China visits India (10- 15 Dec.); Satyajit Ray got special Oscar Award
(Dec. 16).
1992 Rajoli Naval Air Station was commissioned in Madras (Mar.
11) ; Eighth Five Year Plan became operative (Apr. 1); R.K. Dorendra Singh was sworn in as
Chief Minister of Manipur (Apr. 8), Indo-Turkmenistan trade pact signed (Apr. 20); Satyajit Ray
died (Apr. 23); Kannad writer V.K. Gokak died (Apr. 28); ‘Prithvi’ launched (May 5), U.S.A.
imposed sanctions on ISRO for 2 years (May 11); ASLV-D-3 launched (May 20); Successful test
‘Agni’ (May 29); INSAT-2A launched (July 9); Dr. S. D. Sharma took oath (July 25); K. R.
Narayanan elected Vice President (Aug. 19); Test flights of ‘Lakshya’, the pilotless aircraft of
India (Sept. 16, 17 and 21).
1993 24th International Film Festival concluded (Jan. 10-20); Panchayati Raj Act effective
(April 24); INSAT-2B was launched by Arian Rocket from French Guiana (July 23); Digvijay
Singh became Chief Minister of M.P. (Dec. 6).
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1994 25th International Film Festival in Calcutta (Jan. 10-20); G- 15 Summit meet concluded in
New Delhi (March 28-30); Kasturirangan became new ISRO chief (March 30); First heart
plantation in the country (Aug. 3).
successfully launched (Oct. 15); Jharkhand Council Act passed (Dec. 20).
1995 NAM and other developing countries Vth Labour conference (Jan. 19-23); J.B. Patnaik
became Chief Minister in Orissa (March 15); Punjab C.M. Beant Singh assasinated (Aug. 31);
Supreme Court included medical profession within consumer’s forum (Nov. 14); INSAT-2C
successfully launched from Koru (French Guiana) (Dec. 7); IPS-IC launched (Dec. 28).
1996 27th International Film Festival (Jan. 10-21); Indo-Bhutan Agreements signed (March 4);
P.S.L.V.-D3 successfully launched from Shri Harikota (March 21); A. B. Vajpayee was sworn in
10th Prime Minister of India (May 16); Mr. H.D. Deve Gowda was sworn in New Prime
Minister of India, Former President of India Mr. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy passed away (June 1);
Nag missile test successful (Aug. 9); in Gujarat Mehta Ministry dismissed, President’s rule
imposed (Sept. 19); Rajindar Kaur Bhattal took over as first woman C.M. of Punjab (Nov. 21);
India, Bangladesh sign Ganga Water Pact (Dec. 12), P.V. Narsimha Rao resigned from CPP
leadership (Dec. 19).
1997 Tejinder Khanna appointed the new Lieutenant Governor for Delhi (Jan. 1); 28th
International film festival of India concluded in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (Jan. 19); Ms.
Mayawati was sworn in as the Chief Minister of U.P. (March 21); Veteran leader and Ex Chief
Minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik passed away (April 17); I.K. Gujral was sworn in as Prime
Minister (April 21). INSAT-2D placed in orbit (June 4); Sukhoi 30K fighter inducted in Indian
Air Force; 4th National Games concluded in Bangalore (June 11); K. R. Narayanan elected the
new President of India (July 17); Laloo Prasad Yadav resigns and his wife Rabri Devi became
New Chief Minister of Bihar (July 25); Krishan Kant elected Vice President (Aug. 26); Mother
Teresa passed away in Calcutta (Sept. 5); Kalyan Singh took oath as U.P. Chief Minister (Sept.
21); Mr. Dilip Parikh was sworn in Chief Minister of Gujarat (Oct. 28); Mr. Bimal Jalan has
been appointed the Governor of Reserve Bank of India (Nov. 23).
Rangarajan took oath the Governor of Andhra Pradesh (Nov. 24); Lok Sabha dissolved (Dec. 4);
The 17th Indian Antarctic expedition left Marmugao Harbour (Dec. 9); Nipamacha Singh sworn
in as the new Chief Minister of Manipur (Dec. 16); Gujarat assembly dissolved (Dec. 25);
1998 29th International Film Festival concluded in New Delhi (10- 20 Jan.); Konkan Railway
commissioned (Jan. 26); Death sentence for all 26 person for Rajiv Gandhi assassination (Jan.
28) ; Assam Governor rejects C.B.I, plea to prosecute Chief Minister of P.K. Mahanta (Feb. 5);
U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh wins the composite flour test (Feb. 26); Manik Sarkar sworn
in Tripura Chief Minister (March 11); Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee sworn in as the Prime Minister
(March 19); BJP wins trust vote in Himachal Pradesh (March 31); Kushabhau Thakre elected
BJP Chief (April 14); India conducted three underground Nuclear tests (May 11); India
conducted two more Nuclear tests (May 13), Rajasthan Governor Darbara Singh died (May 24);
About 1000 people killed by cyclone in Gujarat (June 9); Mulayam and Laloo build New Front
(June 24); Dr. Najma Haptullah is unanimously re-elected as deputy chairperson of the Rajya
Sabha (July 9); P.M. introduced Lok Pal Bill in Lok Sabha (August 3); Prasar Bharati ordinance
promulgated (August
29) ; President returned the recommendation of Union Cabinet to imposed the President rule in
Bihar (Sept. 25); Adarsh Sen Anand took oath as the Chief Justice of India (Oct. 10); About 200
people killed in Punjab train accident; Luizhino Faleiro sworn in as the new Chief Minister of
Goa (Nov. 26).
1999 30th International Film Festival of India concluded in Hyderabad (Jan. 10-20), India
successfully launched its first commercial telecom satellite INSAT-2E from Kouru (April 3),
Agni-II test fired successfully (April 11), Operation Vijai makes headway in Kargil (June 28),
Sachin Tendulkar appointed captain of Indian Cricket Team (July 28), National Democratic
Alliance secures clear majority (Oct. 8), Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee appointed PM (Oct. 11), India
& UAE sign extradition treaty (Oct. 25), 11th Children’s Film Festival starts in Hyderabad (Nov.
14), Mumbai girl Yukta Mookhey is Miss World (Dec. 5).

2000 The Kargil Committee submits its report (Jan. 7), 31st Indian International Film Festival
(Jan. 10-20), New Population Policy announced (Feb. 15), U.S. President Bill Clinton’s visit to
India (Mar. 19-20), India’s INSAT-3B launched from Kouru (Mar. 22), New EXIM-Policy 2000
announced (Mar. 31), India’s beauty Miss Lara Dutta declared ‘Miss Universe’ (May 13),
President K.R. Narayan gives his assent to Bills relating to the creation of Uttaranchal,
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand States (Aug. 28), Chhattisgarh becomes the 26th State of the Indian
Union (Nov. 1), Uttaranchal becomes the 27th State (Nov. 9), Jharkhand becomes the 28th State
of the Indian Union (Nov. 15).
2001 Indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) successfully test flown (Jan. 4),
India’s Agni-II missile successfully test fired (Jan. 17), General budget presented in the Lok
Sabha by Finance Minister (Feb. 28), Manipur is placed under President’s rule (June 2), India
and Russia jointly successfully test fire cruise missile-PJ-10 (June 12), Indo-Pak Summit at Agra
(July 15-16), E-Postal Service of the Postal Department inaugurated (Aug. 2), Supreme Court
declares the appointment of Jayalalitaa as Chief Minister as unconstitutional, Jayalalitaa resigns
(Sept. 21), The three day warships joint exercise of India and France (Varun-01) concludes near
Bombay Coast (Nov. 8-10), Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament (Dec. 13), POTO reissued in
amended form (Dec. 30).
2002 89th Session of Indian Science Congress in Lucknow (Jan. 3- 7), Indo-US. MOU on
environment (Jan. 16), INSAT-3C satellite launched on an Ariane rocket from Korou in French
Guyana (Jan. 24), India’s ISRO successfully tests the newly indigenously developed cryogenic
engine (Feb. 5), POTO passed in the joint sitting of Parliament (March 26), Manohar Joshi
elected new Speaker of the Lok Sabha (May 10), Telugu Desham party’s annual session
‘Mahanadu’ (May 27- 29), LCA test flown successfully (June 6), Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
declared elected as President of India (July 18),

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat sworn in as Vice-President of India (Aug. 19), President Dr. A.P.J.
Abdul Kalam gives his assent to the Electoral Reforms Ordinance (Aug. 24), India launches into
space her meteorological satellite (METSAT) by using PSLV-C4 (Sept. 12), Supreme Court
upholds national curriculum prepared by NCERT (Sept. 12), Draft Tenth Five Year Plan
approved by the Planning Commission (Oct. 5), Militant attack on Raghunath temple in Jammu
& Kashmir (Nov. 24), Vajpayee and Putin sign Delhi declaration (Dec. 4), Assembly elections in
Gujarat (Dec. 12), Narendra Modi sworn in as Chief Minister of Gujarat (Dec. 22), 32nd
National Games held at Hyderabad (Dec. 13-22), Delhi Metro Rail opened (Dec. 24), Prime
Minister, Mr. Vajpayee inaugurates the Rashtriya Rail Vikas Yojana for Golden Quadilateral
Network (Dec. 26).
2003 Indian Science Congress meet inaugurated at Bangalore by the Prime Minister (Jan. 2),
Central Government announces new Exim Policy for 2003-04 (Mar. 31), The Indian Parliament
deplores USA’s unilateral attack on Iraq (April 8), Prime Minister Mr. Vajpayee’s China visit
(Jui^e 22-27), National Conference breaks off with NDA (July 12); L.C.A. (Light Combat
Aircraft) goes supersonic (Aug. 1), Government of India decides to purchase Advanced Jet
Trainer Aircrafts Hawks from Britain (Sept. 3), India successfully launches into space its
communication satellite INSAT-3E (Sept. 28), India’s 34th International Film Festival (IFFI-
2003) held in New Delhi (Oct. 9-19), India organises first Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad (Oct.
24-Nov. 1), India’s 23rd International Trade Fair in New Delhi (Nov. 14- 27), Ceasefire on
India-Pak border (Nov. 25), India and Brazil sign pact on defence ties (Dec. 1), Citizenship
(Amendment) Bill 2003 paving the way for double citizenship to the NRIs passed by Parliament
(Dec. 22).
2004 ‘Bhisma’ the first indigenously assembled T-90 main battle tank handed over to the army
(Jan. 7), India and Brazil sign space cooperation agreement (Jan. 25), India and Brazil agree.
Minister, Mr. Natwar Singh gives privilege notice against P.M. for leaking Pathak Committee
report before it being presented in Parliament (Aug. 6), The Doordarshan starts Urdu channel
(Aug. 15), India celebrates 100 years of adoption of ‘Vandemataram’ as National Song (Sept. 7),
Nirupama Rao is named for next envoy of China (Sept. 27), India’s 37th International Film
Festival comes to a close (Dec. 3), Uttaranchal to be renamed Uttarakhand, the Bill passed by
Parliament (Dec. 7), Railway Minister Lalu Yadav and his wife and former Chief Minister, Mrs.
Rabri Devi acquitted by Patna Court in disproportionate wealth case (Dec. 18).
2007 India launches Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) majestically took off at 9-23 a.m.
on 10th January, 2007 from its beachside launch pad at Shriharikota and injects four satellites
(Jan. 10), Foundation laid in Raebareilly for the manufacture of passenger rail coaches (Feb. 13),
Rail Budget presented in the Lok Sabha by Railway Minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav (Feb. 26),
General Budget presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram (Feb. 28),
Environment Minister A. Raja is made the new communication and Information Technology
Minister in place of Dayanidhi Maran (May 15), S. Gopalakrishnan takes over as CEO of Infosys
Technologies Ltd. (June 22), President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam launches E-courts project for
computerisation of courts for improvement of justice delivery system (July 9), Pratibha Patil is
sworn-in as the President of India (July 25), Mohammad Hamid Ansari is sworn-in as Vice-
President of India (Aug. 11), Union Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni inaugurates the
Travel and Tourism Fair at Kolkata (Aug. 18), India launches its biggest rocket Geosynchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04 carrying communication satellite INSAT-4CR (Sept. 2),
Indian Cricket Team wins ICC Twenty-20 World Cup (Sept. 24), Former U.P. Chief Secretary
Akhand Pratap Singh arrested in a disproportionate assets case four years .
retirement in 2003 (Sept. 25), The Information Act will not apply to judicial proceedings, says
the Central Information Commission (Sept. 26), B. S. Yeddyurappa is sworn as new Chief
Minister of Karnataka (Nov. 12), Karnataka put under President’s Rule again (Nov. 20), The
Second Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman, M. Veerappa Moily presents its 6th
report to the Prime Minister (Nov. 27), Narendra Modi is sworn in as Chief Minister of Gujarat
for the third time (Dec. 25).
2008 India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear facilities (Jan. 1), ISRO launched Israeli satellite
Polaris by a core-alone configuration of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) (Jan. 21), Union
Finance Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram presents Central Budget 2008-2009 in Lok Sabha (Feb.
29), India beats Australia in a thriller to claim cricket tri-series (March 4), NPF-led Democratic
Alliance of Nagaland wins majority in Nagaland Assembly polls, Congress emerges as the single
largest party in Meghalaya (March 8), Muslim Women Board unveils new Nikahnama (March
16), The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been extended to all 604
districts of the country (April 1), The Taiwan cabinet resigned ahead of President elect Maying-
Jeais (May 14), A thirty member BJP ministry in Karnataka headed by Chief Minister B. S.
Yeddyurappa was sworn by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur (May 30), The Govt, of
India drafts a guidelines asking manufacturers and services provides to avoid ads showing
children and pregnant women using cell phones (June 16), To ensure that girls belonging to
Scheduled Casts (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) continue their education after class VHIth, the
centre has launched on incentive scheme from his academic year (2008-09) (July 16), M. S.
Dhoni to get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2007 (Aug. 4), Actress Asha Parekh
received the "Solitaire for Life Award" (Aug. 9), South Africa Land Reform Bill shelved (Aug.
27).
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Major Events of 1979

• SALT II
 US and China establish full diplomatic relations
 Vietnamese take Phnom Penh, China invades Vietnam

 Ali Bhutto hung

 Soviets invade Afghanistan

 Idi Amin overthrown

 War between Somalia and Ethiopia

 Southern Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe

 Peace agreement reached between Egypt and Israel

 Shah of Iran deposed

 Militant students seize US Embassy in Teheran

 Trade Act

 Sandinistas force Samozas out of Nicaragua

Winners in Sports
NBA: Seattle Supersonics vs. Washington Bullets Score: 4-1
NCAA Football: Alabama Record: 12-0-0
Heisman Trophy: Charles White, usc, RB points: 1,695
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. New York Rangers Series: 4-1
Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys Score: 35-31
US Open Golf: Hale Irwin Score: 284 Course: Inverness Club Location: Denver, CO
World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Baltimore Orioles Series: 4-3
Music Top 10
1."Too Much Heaven" ... Bee Gees
2."Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" ... Rod Stewart
3."I Will Survive" ... Gloria Gaynor
4."Tragedy" ... Bee Gees
5."What a Fool Believes" ... Doobie Brothers
6."Knock on Wood" ... Ami Stewart
7."Heart of Glass" ... Blondie
8."Reunited" .. .Peaches and Herb
9."Hot Stuff" ... Donna Summers
10."Love You Inside Out" ... Bee Gees
Most Popular Movies of 1979
1. Superman
2. Every Which Way But Loose
3. Rocky II
4. Alien
5. The Amityville Horror
6. Star Trek
7. Moonraker
8. The Muppet Movie
9. California Suite
10. The Deer Hunter
Most Popular Books
Fiction:
1. "The Matarese Circle" by Robert Ludlum
2. "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron
3. "Overload" by Arthur Hailey
4. "Memories of Another Day" by Harold Robbins
5. "Jailbird" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Nonfiction
1. Aunt Erma's Cope Book by Erma Bombeck
2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower
3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard Ruff
4. Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin
5. The Pritiken Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritiken
Most Popular Television Shows
1. 60 Minutes (CBS)
2. Three's Company (ABC)
3. That's Incredible (ABC)
4. Alice (CBS)
5. M*A*S*H (CBS)
6. Dallas (CBS)
7. Flo (CBS)
8. The Jeffersons (CBS)
9. The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS)
10. One Day at a Time (CBS)
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "Kramer vs. Kramer"
Best Director: Robert Benton ... "Kramer vs. Kramer"
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman ... "Kramer vs. Kramer"
Best Actress: Sally Field ... "Norma Rae"
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "What a Fool Believes" ... The Doobie Brothers
Best Song: "What a Fool Believes" ... Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald
Best Album: "52nd Street" ... Billy Joel
Male Vocalist: Billy Joel ... "52nd Street"
Female Vocalist: Dionne Warwick ... "I'll Never Love This Way Again"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
The prize was divided equally between: BROWN, HERBERT C., U.S.A., Purdue University,
West Lafayette, IN, b. 1912 (in London, Great Britain); and WITTIG, GEORG, Federal
Republic of Germany, University of Heidelberg, b. 1897, d. 1987: "for their development of the
use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in
organic synthesis"
Literature
ELYTIS ODYSSEUS (pen-name of ALEPOUDHELIS, ODYSSEUS), Greece, b. 1911, d. 1996;
"for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength
and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness"
Peace
MOTHER TERESA, India, b. 1910, d. 1997: Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: CORMACK, ALLAN M., U.S.A., Tufts University, Medford,
MA, b. 1924 (in Johannesburg, South Africa), d. 1998; and HOUNSFIELD, Sir GODFREY N.,
Great Britain, Central Research Laboratories, EMI, London, b. 1919: "for the development of
computer assisted tomography"
Physics
The prize was divided equally between: GLASHOW, SHELDON L., U.S.A., Lyman Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1932; SALAM, ABDUS, Pakistan, International Centre
for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Great
Britain, b. 1926, d. 1996; and WEINBERG, STEVEN, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA, b. 1933: "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic
interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral
current"
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama: Sam Shepard ... "Buried Child"
Fiction: John Cheever ... "The Stories of John Cheever"
History: Don E. Fehrenbacher ... "The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and
Poltics"
International Reoprting: Richard Ben Cramer ... "Philadelphia Inquirer"
National Reporting: James Risser ... "Des Moines Register"
Public Service: "Point Reyes (CA) Light"
Tony Awards
Best Play: "The Elephant Man" ... Bernard Pomerance
Best Musical: "Sweeny Todd"
Best Actor: Tom Conti ... "Whose Life is It Anyway?"
Best Actress: Constance Cummings ... "Wings" & Carole Shelley ... "The Elephant Man" Len
Cariou ... "Sweeney Todd"
Angela Lansbury ... "Sweeny Todd"