7th April- What Happened Today in History?

Famous Birthdays in History on this day:

• Jeetendra Kapoor– Born Ravi Kapoor is an Indian actor and television producer. He was known as jumping jack among his fans of the time because of his dancing skills.
• Ravi Shankar – (born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Music.

Death anniversaries on 7th April:
Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran-  G.N. Ramachandran, (8 October 1922 – 7 April 2001) was an Indian physicist who was known for his work that led to his creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure.
Notable Events:

• 1506– Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
• 1541-Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
• 1818-British Government imposed ‘State Prisoners Regulation III -1818’ for detention and deportation of political prisoners and revolutionaries without any trial. This black act was in force till 1947 when India got independence.

• 1920-Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
• 1929-England’s Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
• 1934-Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India.
• 1935-Shankar Abaji Bhise, famous Indian scientist, died.
• 1938-Kashiram Chhabildas Rana was born in Surat (Gujarat).
• 2000-The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars.
• 1998-Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
• 1997-NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
• 1997-Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called ‘Growth Quadrangle’.
• 1993-Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand.
• 1987-In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance.
• Every year, World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948.