7th OCTOBER TODAY IN HISTORY - DINVISHESH GHADAMODI
Today in Indian History
Events for October 7
Events for October 7
| 7-October-1586 | The Mughal army entered Srinagar where 'Khutbah' was being recited in the name of the emperor. |
| 7-October-1708 | Guru Govind Singh, tenth and the last Sikh Guru, was assassinated. |
| 7-October-1737 | 40 feet waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India). |
| 7-October-1914 | Begam Akhtar, famous gazal singer, was born. |
| 7-October-1919 | Mahatma Gandhij started publication of 'Navjeevan' newspaper. |
| 7-October-1950 | Mother Teresa, started Missionaries of Charity, in Calcutta. |
| 7-October-1952 | Chandigarh became the capital of Punjab. |
| 7-October-1953 | Chandigarh was inaugurated as capital of Punjab. |
| 7-October-1955 | Heavy floods in India and Pakistan caused 1,700 lives in India alone. |
| 7-October-1971 | K. Kelappan, freedom fighter, social reformer, revolutionary, educationist and journalist, died. |
| 7-October-1980 | Vijay Agrawal, Soccer(Football) player, was born in College Station, Texas, United States. |
| 7-October-1987 | Indian peace-keeping troops in Sri Lanka ordered to shoot at sight after the massacre of 179 people by Tamil rebels. |
| 7-October-1991 | Telugu Desam decides not to oppose PM Narasimha Rao in Nandyal. |
| 7-October-1992 | Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Union Law Minister, selected to become the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 7-October-1993 | The Supreme Court rejected private management's plea for 50\% quota in private professional colleges. |
| 7-October-1995 | Keshubhai Patel ministry in Gujarat won the vote of confidence in the state assembly following a compromise reached between the party leadership and dissidents. |
| 7-October-1996 | Final phase of UP election. |
| 7-October-1997 | Central government women employees to get 135 days' maternity leave and men to get 15 days' paternity leave. |
| 7-October-1997 | Indo-Russian programme of military-technical cooperation (1994-2000) to be extended till 2010, said Yeltsin. |
| 7-October-1997 | British High Commissioner in India Sir David Gore-Booth makes it clear that Queen Elizabeth II, during her Amritsar visit, would not 'apologise' for the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, but as a gesture would lay the wreath. |
| 7-October-1997 | Lalram Sanga and Purnima Mohato emerge men's and women's individual champions in National Archery. |
| 7-October-1999 | Comfortable majority for NDA. Prime Minister Vajpayee starts work on Government formation. |
| 7-October-1999 | Long jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian man to go over the eight-metre twice when he leapt to a personal best of 8.02m at the National Athletic Circuit meet in Mumbai and sound a fresh threat to T. C. Yohannan's two-decade old national record of 8.07m. |
| 7-October-1999 | Sonia Gandhi won in Amethi by a margin of over three lakh votes. |
| 7-October-1999 | Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD president, loses in Madhepura. |
| 7-October-2000 | WWF-India bags the first Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Conservation Award. |
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