Today Importance - 7th October

Today Importance - 7th October

7-October-1586

The Mughal army entered Srinagar where the 'Khutba' was being read in the name of the Emperor.

7-October-1708

The tenth and last Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, was assassinated.

7-October-1737

40 foot high waves sank 20,000 small ships, killing 300,000 (Bangla, India).

7-October-1914

Famous ghazal singer Begum Akhtar was born.

7-October-1919

Mahatma Gandhi started publishing 'Navjeevan' newspaper.

7-October-1950

Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.

7-October-1952

Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab.

7-October-1953

Chandigarh was initiated as the capital of Punjab.

7-October-1955

Massive flooding in India and Pakistan resulted in 1,700 deaths in India alone.

7-October-1971

K. Freedom fighter, social reformer, revolutionary, educationist and journalist Kelappan passes away.

7-October-1980

Soccer (football) player Vijay Agarwal was born in College Station, Texas, USA.

7-October-1987

Indian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka have been ordered to open fire after Tamil rebels killed 179 people.

7-October-1991

Telugu Desam has decided not to oppose Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in Nandyal.

7-October-1992

Union Law Minister Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy has been chosen to become the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

7-October-1993

The Supreme Court rejected the plea of private management for 50% quota in private professional colleges.

7-October-1995

Gujarat's Keshubhai Patel ministry has won the trust vote in the state assembly following a compromise between the party leadership and dissidents.

7-October-1996

Last phase of UP elections.

7-October-1997

Women employees of the Central Government will get 135 days of maternity leave and men will get 15 days of paternity leave.

7-October-1997

Yeltsin said that the India-Russia military-technical cooperation program (1994–2000) would be extended until 2010.

7-October-1997

The British High Commissioner to India, Sir David Gore-Booth, clarified that Queen Elizabeth II, during her visit to Amritsar, 'will not apologise' for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, but will lay a wreath as a gesture of appreciation.

7-October-1997

Lalram Sanga and Purnima Mohato became the men's and women's individual champions in national archery.

7-October-1999

Full majority for NDA. Prime Minister Vajpayee started the work of forming the government.

7-October-1999

Long jumper Sanjay Kumar Rai became the first Indian to go above eight meters twice, when he won the Mumbai and T.C. He achieved a personal best jump of 8.02 meters at the National Athletic Circuit meet in 2017. Yohan nan's two-decade-old national record was in fresh danger. 8.07 m.

7-October-1999

Sonia Gandhi won in Amethi by three lakh votes.

7-October-1999

Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav lost from Madhepura.

7-October-2000

WWF-India got the principal Rajiv Gandhi Natural life Preservation Grant.