1969 in India
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Template:Year in region Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents[edit]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
• Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)
Births[edit]
- 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
- 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
- 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
- 11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.
Full date unknown[edit]
- Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
Deaths[edit]
- 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).
See also[edit]
2 February C.N.Annadurai politician-chief Minister of Tamil Nadu(State of India)
References[edit]
- ↑ Yamunan, Sruthisagar. "Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 April 2022.