1969 in India

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Events in the year 1969 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

• 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[]

• 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 taken place in 1969[]

• 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 in 1969.
• 14 banks nationalized by Indira Gandhi
• India was close to insolvency in 1969
• ISRO was set up
• CISF came into existence in 1969

Births[]

• 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[]

• Soumya Bhattacharya, journalist and author.

Deaths[]

• 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[]

• List of Bollywood films of 1969

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

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