1969 in India
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{{Year in India|1969}}
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 - {{INR}}438,360 million
- 14 January - Madras State gets renamed to Tamil Nadu through parliamentary law.{{Cite web |last=Yamunan |first=Sruthisagar |title=Why former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Annadurai decided against renaming Madras state as Tamizh Naadu |url=https://scroll.in/article/964880/why-former-tamil-nadu-chief-minister-annadurai-decided-against-renaming-madras-state-as-tamizh-naadu |access-date=2022-04-17 |website=Scroll.in |date=18 June 2020 |language=en-US}}
- 1 March - The first Rajdhani Express commenced it's journey between Delhi and Howrah.{{Cite news |title=Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, March 3, 1969 |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/news/yesterdate-this-day-from-kolkatas-past-march-3-1969/cid/2004368 |work=Telegraph}}
- 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.{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=178 |language=en}}
- 19 July – Morarji Desai resigned from the post of Deputy Prime Minister of India.{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=179 |language=en}}
- 18 September: Start of the 1969 Gujarat riots.{{Cite web |title=Riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history |url=https://caravanmagazine.in/history/the-riots-that-changed-the-course-of-gujarats-political-history |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=caravanmagazine.in |language=en}}
- 12 November – Congress Working Committee headed by S. Nijalingappa removed Indira Gandhi from primary membership of Congress Party.{{Cite book |last=Austin |first=Granville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r42bAAAAMAAJ |title=Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0195648889 |pages=180 |language=en}}
- 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 {{ndash}} Ajay Devgan, actor and producer.
- 21 June – Padmapani Acharya, Indian Army. (died 1999).
- 24 August {{ndash}} Mukesh Tiwari, actor.
- 4 November {{ndash}} Rupini, actress.
- 7 November – Nandita Das, actress.
- 25 November {{ndash}} Sukanya, actress and dancer.
- File:Vishi Anand-29-4-17.jpg]]11 December – Viswanathan Anand, chess grandmaster and multiple time World Chess Champion.
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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
{{Years in India}}
{{Year in Asia|1969}}
2 February C.N.Annadurai politician-chief Minister of Tamil Nadu(State of India)
References
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