U Kiang Nangbah, was a
Khasi (Pnar) freedom fighter from Meghalaya who led an uprising against the
British. He was hanged by the British publicly at Iawmusiang in Jowai town in
West Jaintia Hills district on 30 December 1862. A government college was also
opened at Jowai in 1967 in his honour.
Dushyant Kumar, who passed
away on 30 December 1975, was an Indian poet of modern Hindi literature. He is
famous for writing Hindi Ghazals, and is generally recognised as one of the
foremost Hindi poets of the 20th century.
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal
Munshi, born on 30 December 1887, was an Indian independence movement
activist, politician, writer and educationist from Gujarat state. A lawyer by
profession, he later turned to author and politician. He is a well-known name
in Gujarati literature. He founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational
trust, in 1938.
Ramana Maharshi, born
on 30 December 1879, was an Indian sage and jivanmukta. He was born
Venkataraman Iyer, but is most commonly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Maharshi.
Rudyard Kipling, born
on 30 December 1865, was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and
novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's
works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories,
including "The Man Who Would Be King".
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai,
who passed away on 30 December 1971, was an Indian physicist and astronomer who
initiated space research and helped develop nuclear power in India. He was
honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan
(posthumously) in 1972. He is internationally regarded as the Father of the
Indian Space Program.
On 30 December 1922, Creation
of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet
Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and
Transcaucasian SSR.
Soviet Union, in full Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire
stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its
final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.’s): Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya
(now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The capital was Moscow, then
and now the capital of Russia.
During the period of its
existence, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was by area the world’s
largest country. It was also one of the most diverse, with more than 100
distinct nationalities living within its borders. The majority of the
population, however, was made up of East Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and
Belorussians); these groups together made up more than two-thirds of the total
population in the late 1980s.
On 30 December 1943, Subhas
Chandra Bose raised the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
was and will always remain one of the brightest shining stars of India's
independence movement.
At a time when the likes of
Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru advocated for peaceful means of protests, Bose
popularly known as Netaji took matters into his own hand and went ahead with an
aggressive push for free India, even setting up a government in exile.
The island at that time was
liberated from British rule by Japan which captured it during the World War
-II.
On 29th December 1943, Netaji
accompanied by Sarvashri Anand Mohan Sahay, Captain Rawat - ADC and Col. DS
Raju, the personal physician of Netaji, landed at the Port Blair aerodrome in
the Andamans. He was received by the Japanese admiral at Port Blair. The
enthusiastic Indians and Burmese also accorded a warm reception to him.
Bose named Andaman Island as
Shaheed and Nicobar Island as Swaraj and appointed INA General AD Loganathan as
the governor of the Islands. Azad Hind Government was not merely a Government
in Exile anymore but had its own land, own currency, civil code and stamps.
By hoisting the Azad Hind
flag, Bose, the head of Provisional Government of Azad Hind also fulfilled his
promise that INA would stand on the Indian soil by the end of 1943.
Tikheswar Borgohain, born on 2 January 1923, was an educationist and freedom fighter. Borgohain, was a resident of Lakwa Charingia Konwer...
