What Happened Today In History?
Find out what happened on 30th June in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 30th June.
Famous Birthdays in History on this day:
- Avika Gor is an Indian television child actress, famous for playing the female lead Anandi Jagdish Singh in the show Balika Vadhu (2008–2010). Currently, she is seen in Sasural Simar Ka as Roli.
- Supriya Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 15th Lok Sabha (India’s house of elected representatives). She is the daughter of the President of the Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar. In 2009, she contested the elections for the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency and won.
Death anniversaries on 30th June:
- Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917) (Hindi: दादाभाई नौरोजी), known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth into Britain.
- Maharaja Gulab Singh (1792–1857) was the founder and first Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, the second largest princely state in British India. After the defeat of the Sikhs in the First Anglo-Sikh War, Gulab Singh, who served as Prime Minister of the Sikhs, received from the British all the lands in Kashmir that were ceded to them by the Sikhs by the Treaty of Lahore to Gulab.
- Sahib Singh Verma (March 15, 1943, Mundka Village, Outer Delhi – June 30, 2007) was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and was member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India (1999–2004). He was a senior vice-president in the BJP.
Notable Events:
- 1834– Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
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1965 – A Ceasefire Is Agreed under UN Auspices Between India and Pakistan to Stop the War at the Rann of Kutch.1914-Mahatma Gandhi’s first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.