Important Moments

Important Moments

Defining moments of India ’s independence

1947 : India gains freedom on 15th August

1950 : India becomes a Republic.

1951-52 : This period saw the first general election of
independent India

1948 : India’s first Olympic gold medal in hockey

1961 : Indian army annexed Goa from the Portuguese

1965 : Indo-Pak war

1974 : India explodes a nuclear device in an underground test.

1975 : Indira Gandhi declares emergency

1983 : India wins the World Cup in cricket

1988 : Viswanathan Anand becomes India’s first Grandmaster in Chess

1992 : Destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque leads to widespread religious violence.

2004 : Thousands of people killed in the Tsunami. (

2007 : INDIA WON T20 WORLD CUP

2008: FIRST INDIAN GOLD MEDALDOU 13082007)