#history1dec

1-December-1885  Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.

1-December-1886  Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Musran in U.P.

1-December-1894  Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born.

1-December-1900  Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu.

1-December-1911  Dayarnav Raghunath Kopardekar, founder of ""Indrayani Sahitya Prakashan Sanstha"", was born.

1-December-1921  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail.

1-December-1921  Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab.

1-December-1928  The first talkie filmshow, named as 'British Talkies' , was released on December 1, 1928, at Globe Theatres, Calcutta.

1-December-1932  A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London.

1-December-1942  No. 8 Squadron was raised meanwhile, absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel.

1-December-1946  Australia compiled 645 vs India at Gabba. Bradman made 187 runs.

1-December-1947  India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba.

1-December-1951  Abanindra Nath Tagore, famous Indian painter and sculptor, died in Calcutta.

1-December-1955  Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism.

1-December-1960  Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964.

1-December-1963  Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union.

1-December-1964  Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.

1-December-1965  Border Security Force was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the International Border with Pakistan.

1-December-1966  Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.

1-December-1970  T. Swaminathan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 02-11-1972

1-December-1974  Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away.

1-December-1982  Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games.

1-December-1985  Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an 
Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.

1-December-1989  A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim.

1-December-1989  Dr. Chenna Reddi (Congress-I) becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh.

1-December-1989  V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.

1-December-1989  National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.

1-December-1990  Vijayalaxmi Pandit, first Indian Lady Ambassador and Politician, passed away at the age of 90 years.

1-December-1991  Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.

1-December-1992  17 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya.

1-December-1993  Tata Steel's Amit Bhaduria win's India's first gold medal in the 10th Asian Track and Field meet in Manila in discus throw.

1-December-1993  World AIDS day.

1-December-1993  Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.

1-December-1994  Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

1-December-1997  At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.

1-December-1998  Dhian Singh (103), freedom fighter dies at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. He was a member of the Indian National Army and was jailed a number of times during the freedom movement.

1-December-1998  P. Subramaniam Poti (75), former Chief Justice of Kerala and Gujarat High Court, dies of a heart attack.

1-December-1999  Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC

1-December-1999  Supreme Court quashes a pending inquiry initiated by the Election Commission against former Union Finance Minister Manmohan Singh.

1-December-2000  There would be a cap of 20 per cent equity for broadcasters planning to operate DTH television services, said I&B minister Sushma Swaraj