5th October 2011:

India launches low-cost tablet Aakash

6th October 1893:

Meghnad Saha, Indian Astrophysicist, institution builder and parliamentarian, who developed the ‘ionization theory’, is born.

7th October 1950:

Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity

8th October 1932:

The Indian Air Force comes into being

9th October 1949:

The Territorial Army is established

10th October 1992:

The Vidyasagar Setu, the second bridge across the Hooghly River, is inaugurated

11th October 1942:

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, is born

12th October 1901:

Theodore Roosevelt renames “Executive Mansion,” “The White House”

13th October 1911:

Sister Nivedita, a writer, social worker and disciple of Swami Vivekananda passes away

14th October 1956:

B.R. Ambedkar converts to Buddhism along with 365,000 followers

15th October 1931:

Indian scientist and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is born

16th October 1905:

The provincial state of Bengal is partitioned

17th October 1907:

The first commercial wireless telegraph is sent over the Atlantic Ocean.

18th October 2004:

Indian bandit and smuggler Veerappan is killed

19th October 2005:

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

20th October 1962:

The Sino-Indian War begins

21st October 1943:

Subhas Chandra Bose announces the Provisional Government of Free India

22nd October 2008:

India’s first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, is launched

23rd October 2001 :

releases the iPod.

24th October 2011:

A vaccination program immunizing over 170 million children every year results in the near eradication of polio in India.

25th October 2001:

Release of Microsoft’s Windows XP

26th October 1947 :

Maharaja Hari Singh agrees to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India

27th October 1982:

China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

28th October 1972:

The first Airbus A300 flies into the sky.

29th October 1999:

A super cyclone strikes Odisha, with at least 10,000 lives lost and an estimated 1.5 million people rendered homeless.

30th October 1909:

Indian nuclear physicist Homi Bhabha known as the ‘Father of the Indian Nuclear Programme’, is born.

31st October 1984:

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated