Events

• 24 June — Lord Randolph Churchill
  Lord Randolph Churchill
  Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill MP was a British statesman. He was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and his wife Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane , daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry...
  
   becomes Secretary of State for India
  Secretary of State for India
  The Secretary of State for India, or India Secretary, was the British Cabinet minister responsible for the government of India and the political head of the India Office...
  
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• 28 December — 72 India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  n lawyers, academics and journalists gather in Bombay to form the Congress Party
  Indian National Congress
  The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
  
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Births

• 14 February — Syed Zafarul Hasan
  Syed Zafarul Hasan
  - Dr Syed Zafarul Hasan :Syed Zafarul Hasan was a prominent twentieth-century Muslim philosopher.-Biography:Syed Zafarul Hasan was the eldest son of Khan Sahib Syed Diwan Mohammad....
  
  , Muslim
  Muslim
  A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
  
   philosopher (d.1949
  1949 in India
  Events in the year 1949 in the Republic of India.-Events:*1 January - After eight months of fighting between the Indian forces and the Pakistan Army agreed to a ceasefire, ordered by the United Nations Security Council, takes effect in Kashmir region....
  
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Congress

1. 28 December — Formation of Indian National Congress
2. First President of Indian National Congress — W.C .Banerjee
3. First Secretary of Indian National Congress — A.O. Hume
4. Dadabbhai Naoroji gave the name Indian National Congress
5. Fist session of Indian National Congress was held at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay.
6. In its first session it had 72 members.