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On This Day: 31st January
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in …
On This Day: 30th November
2023: Henry Kissinger dies at 100
On This Day: 30th January
2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
On This Day: 28th January
Data Privacy Day
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by …
On This Day: 28th March
2023 – First batch of 2597 Naval Agniveer including 273 women pass out in a parade at INS Chilka
On This Day: 27th October
Infantry Day
On This Day: 27th January
1924 – Six days after his death Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.
1916 – World …
On This Day: 26th June
1945: The United Nations is formally established with the signing of the UN Charter.
On This Day: 26th January
1950 – Republic Day of India
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or …
On This Day: 25th January
National Voters' Day
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
1945 – …
On This Day: 24th October
United Nations Day
On This Day: 24th January
National Girl Child Day
1915 – World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty …
On This Day: 23rd January
World Freedom Day
On This Day: 23rd February
Army Day of the Nepali Army
On This Day: 22nd January
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of …
On This Day: 21st January
2009 – Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent …
On This Day: 21st May
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
On This Day: 20th January
2021 – Desert Knight-21 conducted between the IAF and the French Air Force.
1972 – Pakistan launches its nuclear …
On This Day: 19th January
1990 – Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
1946 – …
On This Day: 18th February
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the …
On This Day: 18th January
1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1941 – World War II: British …
On This Day: 17th January
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under …
On This Day: 16th January
2002 – War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets …
On This Day: 16th February
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
1985 – Hezbollah is …
On This Day: 15th February
1911 – Raising Days of Indian Army's Corps of Signals. It was raised as a separate entity under Lieutenant …
On This Day: 15th January
Indian Army Day
On This Day: 14th February
2019 – Pulwama Attack: A convoy of vehicles carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway …
On This Day: 14th January
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and …
On This Day: 13th January
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
1942 – World War II: …
On This Day: 13th February
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker …
On This Day: 13th April
1919 – The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
On This Day: 12th February
Keren Day – Battle Honor Keren 4 RAJRIF
On This Day: 11th January
1966 – Demise of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India.
2014 – Demise …
On This Day: 11th November
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day)
On This Day: 11th May
1998 – National Technology Day in India. A day to honor the remarkable achievements in military technology. On this …
On This Day: 10th January
1966 – The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan.
On This Day: 10th November
Today in 1961, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 was published.
On This Day: 7th May
1945: Germany signs the Instrument of Surrender ending World War II
On This Day: 6th March
1993 – The first batch of Women Officers passes out from the Officers Training Academy in Chennai marking the …
On This Day: 5th February
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World …
On This Day: 2nd March
1963 – IAF's 28 Squadron is raised in Chandigarh equipped with the first lot of MiG- 21 (F-13 type) …
On This Day: 2nd January
1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.
On This Day: 31st January
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery, and submits it to …
On This Day: 30th November
2023: Henry Kissinger dies at 100
On This Day: 30th January
2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
1972 – Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s …
On This Day: 28th January
Data Privacy Day
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1547 – Edward VI, the nine-year-old son of Henry VIII, becomes King of England on his …
On This Day: 28th March
2023 – First batch of 2597 Naval Agniveer including 273 women pass out in a parade at INS Chilka
On This Day: 27th October
Infantry Day
On This Day: 27th January
1924 – Six days after his death Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.
1916 – World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.[10]
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, …
On This Day: 26th June
1945: The United Nations is formally established with the signing of the UN Charter.
On This Day: 26th January
1950 – Republic Day of India
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (" Complete Independence ") which occurred 17 years later.
On This Day: 25th January
National Voters' Day
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
On This Day: 24th October
United Nations Day
On This Day: 24th January
National Girl Child Day
1915 – World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
On This Day: 23rd January
World Freedom Day
On This Day: 23rd February
Army Day of the Nepali Army
On This Day: 22nd January
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1917 – American entry into World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1901 – Edward VII …
On This Day: 21st January
2009 – Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the weeks to follow.
1919 – A revolutionary Irish parliament is founded and declares the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first …
On This Day: 21st May
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
On This Day: 20th January
2021 – Desert Knight-21 conducted between the IAF and the French Air Force.
1972 – Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1265 – The first English parliament to include not …
On This Day: 19th January
1990 – Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.
1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
On This Day: 18th February
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
On This Day: 18th January
1945 – World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
On This Day: 17th January
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
On This Day: 16th January
2002 – War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1942 – The …
On This Day: 16th February
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes …
On This Day: 15th February
1911 – Raising Days of Indian Army's Corps of Signals. It was raised as a separate entity under Lieutenant Colonel S H Powell.
On This Day: 15th January
Indian Army Day
On This Day: 14th February
2019 – Pulwama Attack: A convoy of vehicles carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir killing 40 Indian personnel and the perpetrator—Adil Ahmad Dar—who was a local Kashmiri …
On This Day: 14th January
1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
On This Day: 13th January
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in …
On This Day: 13th February
1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the …
On This Day: 13th April
1919 – The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
On This Day: 12th February
Keren Day – Battle Honor Keren 4 RAJRIF
On This Day: 11th January
1966 – Demise of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India.
2014 – Demise of Muhammad Habibur Rahman, Indian-Bangladeshi jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
On This Day: 11th November
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day)
On This Day: 11th May
1998 – National Technology Day in India. A day to honor the remarkable achievements in military technology. On this date in 1998, India's successful test firing of the Shakti-I nuclear missile showcased its prowess in defense capabilities.
On This Day: 10th January
1966 – The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan.
On This Day: 10th November
Today in 1961, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 was published.
On This Day: 7th May
1945: Germany signs the Instrument of Surrender ending World War II
On This Day: 6th March
1993 – The first batch of Women Officers passes out from the Officers Training Academy in Chennai marking the entry of Women Commissioned Officers in the Indian Army.
On This Day: 5th February
1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
Holidays and Observances:
Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan)
On This Day: 2nd March
1963 – IAF's 28 Squadron is raised in Chandigarh equipped with the first lot of MiG- 21 (F-13 type) aircraft with Wing Commander (later Air Chief Marshal and Chief of Air Staff) Dilbagh Singh in command. They are called The First Supersonics.
On This Day: 2nd January
1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan.