1969 in India
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Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India
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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...
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Incumbents
- President of IndiaPresident of IndiaThe President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
– Zakir HussainZakir Hussain (politician)Dr. Zakir Hussain , was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He was the first elected Muslim president of India....
until May 3, V. V. GiriV. V. GiriVarahagiri Venkata Giri , commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974.-Early life:...
until July 20 (acting president), Mohammad HidayatullahMohammad HidayatullahMohammad Hidayatullah , OBE was the Chief Justice of India. He served as the acting President of India and was also the sixth Vice-President of India for one complete term...
until August 24 (acting president), V. V. GiriV. V. GiriVarahagiri Venkata Giri , commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974.-Early life:... - Prime Minister of IndiaPrime Minister of IndiaThe Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
– Indira GandhiIndira GandhiIndira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
Events
- The Government of IndiaGovernment of IndiaThe Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, outside the country somewhere in USSR, becoming the sixth nation to do so. - Indian National CongressIndian National CongressThe 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...
splits into two factions. One led by Indira GandhiIndira GandhiIndira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
and another led by Morarji DesaiMorarji DesaiMorarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian independence activist and the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977–79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress...
. - Rajdhani Express was introduced in 1969.
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- Kilvenmani massacreKilvenmani massacreThe Kilvenmani massacre was an incident in Tamil Nadu in 1969 in which a group of c.42 striking Dalit village labourers were murdered by a gang allegedly, sent by their landlords...
Births
- 7 January - Mandakini, actress.
- 7 November - Nandita DasNandita DasNandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and...
, actress. - 11 December - Viswanathan AnandViswanathan AnandV. Anand or Anand Viswanathan, usually referred as Viswanathan Anand, is an Indian chess Grandmaster, the current World Chess Champion, and currently second highest rated player in the world....
, chessChessChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
grandmasterInternational GrandmasterThe title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
and current World Chess ChampionWorld Chess ChampionshipThe World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
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Deaths
- 31 January - Meher BabaMeher BabaMeher Baba , , born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age....
, mystic and spiritual master (b.18941894 in India-Births:*1 January — Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist .*21 February — Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, scientist .*25 February — Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master .*10 April — Ghanshyam Das Birla, businessman .-Full date unknown:...
). - 23 February - MadhubalaMadhubalaMumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi, known by her stage name Madhubala was a Hindi movie actress. She starred in several successful movies in the 1950s and early 1960s, many of which have attained a classic status...
, actress (b.19331933 in India-Events:*8 May - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 3-week hunger strike because of the mistreatment of the lower castes.-Births:*14 February - Madhubala, actress .*18 February - Nimmi, actress.*4 April - Balan K...
). - 3 May - Zakir HussainZakir Hussain (politician)Dr. Zakir Hussain , was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He was the first elected Muslim president of India....
, politician and third President of IndiaPresident of IndiaThe President of India is the head of state and first citizen of India, as well as the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. President of India is also the formal head of all the three branches of Indian Democracy - Legislature, Executive and Judiciary...
(b.18971897 in India-Births:*23 January — Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement .*8 February — Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India ....
). - 28 July - Annabhau SatheAnnabhau SatheAnnabhau Sathe Annabhau Sathe Annabhau Sathe (Devanagari: (अण्णाभाऊ साठे) (1 August 1920 – 18 July 1969) was a social reformer and writer from Maharashtra, India.- Early life :Sathe was born in the village of Wategaon near Sangli in a family belonging to the Dalit Mang community...
, social reformer and writer (b.19201920 in India-Events:*Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan in Aligarh in 1875, becomes Aligarh Muslim University.-January to June:*16 February - I. S...
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See also
- Bollywood films of 1969Bollywood films of 1969A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1969:-Highest grossing:The top twenty six grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1969:-1969:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...