1665: Treaty of Purandar was signed between Mirza Raje Jaisingh and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
1752: The French army surrendered to England in Trichinopoly.
1866: Establishment of Allahabad High Court.
1900: Birsa Munda, the freedom fighter, died in Ranchi Jail under mysterious circumstances.
1934: World famous cartoon made his theatrical debut with The Wise Little Hen.
1959: USS George Washington, the first-ever submarine to have a nuclear ballistic missile, was launched in US Navy.
1964: Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India.
1986: First death due to AIDS was reported in a Mumbai based private hospital.
2001: India’s Leander Pes and Mahesh Bhupathi won the men’s doubles title at the French Tennis Championships.
Famous Birthdays – June 9
1672: Peter the Great, the Russian Emperor.
1931: Nandini Satpathy, an Indian politician and author.
1949: Kiran Bedi, the first female Indian Police Service officer.
1976: Ameesha Patel, an Indian actress, and model.
1981: Anoushka Shankar, a British Indian sitar player, and composer.
1985: Sonam Kapoor, an Indian film actress.
Death Anniversaries - June 9
1716: Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.
1834: William Carey, an English Christian missionary, founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India.
1870: Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic.
1900: Birsa Mudra, the freedom fighter, died in Ranchi Jail under mysterious circumstances.
2011: M. F. Husain, an Indian artist, and painter.
1707: After Aurangzeb’s death, his two sons, Muazzam and Azam Shah fought for the throne of Delhi. In this, Muazzam killed Azam Shah and seized the throne of Delhi.
1915: The book Gitarahasya, written by Lokmanya Tilak while he was in Mandalay prison, was published in Gaikwad Vada, Pune.
1936: Indian State Broadcasting Service got renamed All India Radio.
1948: First international flight of Air India took off from Bombay to London. The flight was VT-CQP Malabar Princess.
1984: Homosexuality became legal in New South Wales of Australia.
1992: World Oceans Day celebrated for the first time.
Famous Birthdays – June 8
1915: Uroob, an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.
1955: Tim Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
1957: Dimple Kapadia, an Indian actress.
1975: Shilpa Shetty Kundra, an Indian actress, film producer, dancer, author, businesswoman, and a former model.
Death Anniversaries - June 8
632AD: Islamic prophet Muhammad died in Madina.
1795: Louis XVII, King of France.
1809: Thomas Paine, an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
1845: Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
1893: Mahatma Gandhi launched the civil disobedience movement.
1975: The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
1985: Boris Baker became the youngest player to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title at the age of 17.
1994: Economist Prabhakar Narvekar was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he is the first Indian appointed as the deputy managing director of the IMF.
Famous Birthdays – June 7 in
1914: K. A. Abbas, an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist.
1935: Shyama, an Indian film actress.
1942: Muammar al-Gaddafi, a Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
1974: Bear Grylls, an adventurer, writer, television presenter, and businessman.
1974: Mahesh Bhupathi, a retired Indian professional tennis player.
1975: Ekta Kapoor, an Indian television producer, film producer, and director.
Death Anniversaries - June 7
1954: Alan Turing, an English mathematician.
1970: E. M. Forster, an English fiction writer, essayist, and librettist.
2002: Basappa Danappa Jatti, the fifth Vice President of India.
