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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 09/30/1207 |
Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 09/30/1687 |
Aurangzeb acquired the famous Golconda fort near Hyderabad from the Qutub Shahi Sultan Tana Shah due to the treachery of his General Panni. |
| 09/30/1881 |
Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu. |
| 09/30/1894 |
Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born. |
| 09/30/1900 |
Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born. |
| 09/30/1908 |
Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 09/30/1916 |
Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P. |
| 09/30/1922 |
Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 09/30/1943 |
Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died. |
| 09/30/1961 |
Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay. |
| 09/30/1963 |
The USSR openly louded Indian view on Kashmir issue. This was against Pakistan's motives. |
| 09/30/1972 |
Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir. |
| 09/30/1981 |
Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International. |
| 09/30/1989 |
INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 09/30/1990 |
Former Dy PM Devilal submits his letter of resignation. |
| 09/30/1992 |
Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award. |
| 09/30/1996 |
Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 09/30/1996 |
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
| 09/30/1996 |
PVN Rao, who was to appear in court in the Pathak cheating case, gets a reprieve |
| 09/30/1996 |
Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 09/30/1997 |
24th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum. |
| 09/30/1997 |
At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir. |
| 09/30/1997 |
Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 09/30/1999 |
India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'. |
| 09/30/1999 |
Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature. |
| 09/30/1999 |
A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term. |
| 09/30/2000 |
Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik. |
| 09/30/2000 |
India's Priyanka Chopra (18) wins the Miss World beauty pageant. |
| 09/30/2000 |
The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 02/21/1878 | Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris. |
| 01/18/1983 | Indi Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 07/27/1998 | B. B. Lyngdoh is sworn in Meghalaya Chief Minister. |
| 07/16/1954 | French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted. |
| 10/16/1878 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala. |
| 05/05/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 09/09/1920 | Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language. |
| 09/14/1919 | Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat. |
| 11/17/1928 | Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the ""Lion of Punjab"" or ""Punjab Kesari"" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture and |
| 08/14/1987 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour. |
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