Important Days & Dates GK Questions with Answers – Page 8

The Punjab Reorganisation Act of 1966 divided the then state of Punjab on a linguistic basis with effect from the first of November 1966: the Hindi speaking southern districts became the new state of Haryana, the hill areas were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and the city of Chandigarh was made…

The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-3 touched down on 23 August 2023, making India the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon and the first to land in the region of the south pole, and the Government named the date National Space Day.

The Union was founded on 17 May 1865, when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed at Paris, and it is today the United Nations agency for information and communication technologies with its headquarters at Geneva.

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861, built the Krishna Raja Sagara dam across the Kaveri, designed the automatic flood gates used at Khadakwasla, served as Diwan of Mysore and received the Bharat Ratna in 1955.

UNESCO proclaimed the day in 1966 and it has been observed since 1967 to remind governments that literacy is the base of every other right, with a theme announced each year and the UNESCO literacy prizes awarded.

Azad was born on 11 November 1888 and became independent India's first Minister of Education; the first Indian Institutes of Technology, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education belong to his term, and the Ministry declared his birthday National Education Day in 2008.

Radhakrishnan, a philosopher and teacher who became the first Vice-President and the second President of India, was born on 5 September 1888; when his students wished to celebrate his birthday he asked that the day be kept for teachers instead.

Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 at Erode in the Madras Presidency, worked on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at a very young age.

On 11 May 1998 India tested nuclear devices at Pokhran in Rajasthan under Operation Shakti; the same day the indigenous Hansa-3 trainer aircraft made its first test flight and the Trishul missile was successfully test-fired, and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee named the date National Technology Day.

C. V. Raman made the announcement on 28 February 1928 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1930, the first Nobel in the sciences for an Indian.

On this day in 1928 C. V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect, the scattering of light with a changed wavelength when it passes through a transparent medium, and the discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

On 27 October 1947, a day after the Instrument of Accession was signed by the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, the first infantry company was flown into Srinagar to meet the tribal invasion, and the day is kept by the infantry as its own.

Born on 15 September 1861, he was the engineer behind the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection works at Hyderabad, served as the Diwan of Mysore and received the Bharat Ratna, and the day honours the profession through his name.

On 16 December 1971 the Pakistani forces surrendered at Dhaka, the largest surrender since the Second World War, and the war ended with the creation of Bangladesh.

A ship carrying explosives caught fire at the docks and blew up, and dozens of firemen died fighting the blaze; 14 April is kept in their memory and the week that follows is observed as fire service week to spread awareness of fire safety.

The physician and Chief Minister of West Bengal was born on 1 July and died on the same date, and the day was fixed in his memory to honour the work of doctors.

On this day in 1947 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the first batch of probationers of the administrative service at Metcalfe House in Delhi and described the services as the steel frame that would hold the country together, and the day is now marked with awards for excellence in public administration.

A small patrol of the Central Reserve Police Force was ambushed there in October 1959 and several policemen were killed, and since then 21 October has been kept as the day on which the country remembers all police personnel who died on duty during the year.

Armed Forces Flag Day has been observed since 1949, when it was decided that the country should contribute to the welfare of serving personnel, veterans and the families of those killed in service, and small flags are distributed in return for contributions.

The Kargil conflict of 1999 ended on this day with the recapture of the heights held in the Dras, Batalik and Kargil sectors, and the day is observed in memory of the soldiers who died in that campaign.