7 JAN HISTORY EVENTS

Today in Indian History Events for January 7

7-January-1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.

7-January-1761Third Battle of Panipat: Ahmed Shah Abdali, the ruler of Afghanistan, defeats the Marathas; Maratha imperialism checked.

7-January-1831Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania.

7-January-1858The hearing of the case began that was filed against the last Mughal Emperor Bahadhur Shah II for taking part in the first armed revolution against the British.

7-January-1859The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.

7-January-1883Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born.

7-January-1885Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born.

7-January-1900Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP.

7-January-1928Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar.

7-January-1928Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born.

7-January-1956Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy.

7-January-1987Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.

7-January-1988Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu.

7-January-1990President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government.

7-January-1993C. Subramaniam, Maharashtra Governor, resigns.

7-January-1993The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.

7-January-1994The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year.

7-January-1994Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC.

7-January-1997Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting.