Today in Indian History
Events for January 7
Events for January 7
| 7-January-1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born. |
| 7-January-1761 | Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali, the ruler of Afghanistan, defeats the Marathas; Maratha imperialism checked. |
| 7-January-1831 | Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania. |
| 7-January-1858 | The hearing of the case began that was filed against the last Mughal Emperor Bahadhur Shah II for taking part in the first armed revolution against the British. |
| 7-January-1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 7-January-1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
| 7-January-1885 | Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born. |
| 7-January-1900 | Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP. |
| 7-January-1928 | Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar. |
| 7-January-1928 | Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born. |
| 7-January-1956 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy. |
| 7-January-1987 | Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat. |
| 7-January-1988 | Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu. |
| 7-January-1990 | President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government. |
| 7-January-1993 | C. Subramaniam, Maharashtra Governor, resigns. |
| 7-January-1993 | The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court. |
| 7-January-1994 | The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year. |
| 7-January-1994 | Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC. |
| 7-January-1997 | Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting |
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