1969 in India

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Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Zakir Husain 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
• Vice President of India – V. V. Giri until 3 May; Gopal Swarup Pathak
• Chief Justice of India – Mohammad Hidayatullah

Governors

• 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

• National income - ₹438,360 million
• 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law. ^[1]
• 1 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced its journey between Delhi and Howrah. ^[2]
• 12 July – Congress Parliamentary Board at Bangalore nominated Neelam Sanjiva Reddy as Congress's candidate for the post of President of India by a vote of four to two. ^[3]
• 19 July – Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India. ^[4]
• 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots. ^[5]
• 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party. ^[6]
• 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
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was set up
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) came into existence (10 March 1969)

Law

• Registration of Births and Death Act ( RBD Act)

Births

• 24 May – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army. (died 1999).
• 2 April – Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
• 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
• 24 August – Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
• 4 November – Rupini, actress.
• 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
• 25 November – Sukanya, actress and dancer.

• 

  Viswanathan Anand

  11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.

Full date unknown

• Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.
• M. Yoganathan, environmental activist. ^[7]

Deaths

• 27 January – Anukulchandra Chakravarty, social reformer and philanthropist (born 1888)
• 31 January – Meher Baba, mystic and spiritual master (born 1894).
• 23 February – Madhubala, actress (born 1933).
• 3 May – Zakir Husain, 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

• List of Bollywood films of 1969

2 February C.N.Annadurai politician-chief Minister of Tamil Nadu(State of India)

References

1. Yamunan, Sruthisagar (18 June 2020). "Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu". Scroll.in. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
2. "Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata's past, March 3, 1969". Telegraph .
3. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 178. ISBN   0195648889.
4. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 179. ISBN   0195648889.
5. "Riots that changed the course of Gujarat's political history". caravanmagazine.in. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
6. Austin, Granville (1999). Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. Oxford University Press. p. 180. ISBN   0195648889.
7. "Deep-rooted love - The Hindu". The Hindu . 17 August 2011.