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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[edit | edit source]

President of India – Zakir Hussain until 3 May, V. V. Giri until 20 July (acting president), Mohammad Hidayatullah until 24 August (acting president), V. V. Giri
Prime Minister of India – Indira Gandhi
Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

Governors[edit | edit source]

Andhra Pradesh – Khandubhai Kasanji Desai
Assam – Braj Kumar Nehru
Bihar – Nityanand Kanungo
Gujarat – Shriman Narayan
Haryana – Birendra Narayan Chakraborty
Jammu and Kashmir – Bhagwan Sahay
Karnataka – Gopal Swarup Pathak (until 30 August), vacant thereafter (starting 30 August)
Kerala – V. Viswanathan
Madhya Pradesh – K. Chengalaraya Reddy
Maharashtra – P V Cherian (until 8 November), vacant thereafter (starting 8 November)
Nagaland – B.K. Nehru
Odisha – Shaukatullah Shah Ansari
Punjab – Dadappa Chintappa Pavate
Rajasthan – Sardar Hukam Singh
Tamil Nadu – Sardar Ujjal Singh (starting 14 January)
Uttar Pradesh – Bezawada Gopala Reddy
West Bengal –
- until 1 April: Dharma Vira
- 1 April-19 September: Deep Narayan Sinha
- starting 19 September: Shanti Swaroop Dhavan

Events[edit | edit source]

National income - ₹438,360 million
14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.^[1]
18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots
Indian National Congress splits into two factions. One led by Indira Gandhi and another led by Morarji Desai.
Rajdhani Express was introduced
14 banks nationalized
ISRO was set up
CISF came into existence (10 March 1969)

Law.[edit | edit source]

• Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)

Births[edit | edit source]

24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
Vishwanathan Anand
11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

Full date unknown[edit | edit source]

Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.

Deaths[edit | edit source]

31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
10 January -Sampurnanand, writer and politician (born 1891).
23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
3 May – Zakir Hussain, politician and third President of India (born 1897).
13 June – Acharya Atre, Writer, Poet, Social Activist in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement (born 1898).
28 July – Annabhau Sathe, social reformer and writer (born 1920).

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Yamunan, Sruthisagar. "Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

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[1] Yamunan, Sruthisagar. "Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

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