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=== June 20 ===


1670: Guru Tegh Bahadhur Ji was arrested in Delhi.
=== June 25 ===


1923: Babu Santa Singh arrested at Tapa Railway Station.
1700: Sikhs forces defeated the combined forces of the Hill Rajas and Imperial troops. Guru Gobind Singh Ji's' forces routed the 10,000 combined forces of Hill chiefs and the imperial troops. It was from the Baisakhiof 1699 that the hill chiefs became thirsty for Guru Gobind Singh's blood and resolved to destroy the Sikh Panth which they considered inimical to varnashram dharam. They resolved to try all venues suggested to them by Kautilya's statecraft: weakening the movement from within; instigating people of other faiths against it; and involving it straight away in an armed struggle with the forces of the state to retard its momentum, if not destroy it. This was the first battel of Anandpur Sahib.


1972: 20 GurSikhs were killed in Gurdwara Sadabarat.
1889: Maharaja Dalip Singh sent a message from Geneva to initiate uprising against the British Government..


1977 Parkash Singh Badal became the Chief Minister of the Punjab.
1924: 9th Shahidi Jatha of 500 Akalis, led by Sardar Kaesar Singh of Vidang, courted arrest upon reaching Jaito.


1984: Sardar Harinder Singh Khalsa resigned his position at the Indian Embassy in Norway in protest of the attack on Sri Darbar Sahib. He then sought assylum for himself and his family.
1944: The Simla Conference was held to decide the future of British India.


1984: Major General R.K. Ghoad, announced 4 officer, and 4 JOC, and 92 soliers killed while 287 injured during the bluestar operation. Later Rajiv Gandhi, while addressing a Congress gathering in Nagpur, announced 700 soliers killed and 2400 Sikhs arrested. The actual count as per eye witnesses in thousands.
1975: Indira Gankhi imposed Internal Emergency on the whole of India.


=== June 21 ===  
=== June 26 ===


1661: Guru Tegh Bahadhur Ji visited Banaras.
1838: Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a tri-party agreement with the British and Shah Sujaul.


1936: Anup Singh of Manko was murdered.
1839: Maharaja Ranjit Singh suffered another stroke.


1984: Panj Payaras successfully pressured the Indian Government to open all Gurdwaras (except Sri Harimandir Sahib) for public visits.
1984: Baba Nihal Singh Hariawalae was arrested.


=== June 22 ===
1984: Panj Payaras demanded from the President, Prime Minister and the Governor of Punjab to give control of "kar sewa" to the SGPC.


1713: Sikhs fought a fierce battle with the ruling forces at Sadhaura. After four months of siege, Banda Bahadhur escaped into the Himalayas.
=== June 27 ===
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1984: Panj Payaras excummunicated Baba Sant Singh Ji, the main leader of Badha Dal, for cooperateing with the government in its forced "kar sewa" under curfew.
1745: Bhai Taru Singh's scalp was removed by orders of Nawab Zakaria Khan. Nawab Zakaria Khan's orders were carried out and Bhai Taru's scalp was removed. On Harbhagat Naranjania's complaint, Bhai Taru Singh of his village was arrested and accused of providing rations to the Sikhs. Bhai Taru Singh admitted the facts. Nawab Zakaria Khan ordered the removal of his scalp. Bhai Taru Singh said that the Governor would suffer as much torture. And Bhai Taru would take Zakaria Khan along with him to the other world. Upon carrying out Nawab's orders, Zakaria Khan's urinary system stopped functioninh, puttiung him in great pain. The Qazi addressed Bhai Taru Singh "Oh Kafir, what have you done? The Nawab can't urinate. He is in great pain." Bhai Taru Singh told him to take his shoe and beat it on Zakaria's head to make him urinate. On the fifth day of shoe beating, Zakaria Khan died on July 1, 1745. on hearing of that the same day Bhai Taru Singh left his mortal remains.


=== June 23 ===
1839: Maharaja Ranjit Singh passed away in Lahore. Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great ruler of Punjab for 40 years, breathed his last at 7 P.M. on this day and thus the most brilliant period of Sikh history came to a close. In 1799, Maharaja Ranjit Singh conquered Lahore. Further the neighboring, including greater punjab, Kashmir, Multan, Kangdha, and Attock were brought under Khalsa Raaj. During his reign everyone, including hindus and muslims lived happily and no one dare set their sights on khalsa Raj. On this day the Khalsa lost a leader who had by his commanding personality, foresight and skill secured the Sikhs, the status of a sovereign people. Thus creating a huge void. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the stability of the Sikh political system took a nose dive. The three major reasons for the same have been, the ever tightening noose of British power and influence round the kingdom of Lahore Darbar, the contending rival parties and the incapacity of the successors. The Government of Panjab degenerated into a chaotic condition. The real power went in the hands of incompetent nominal rulers, ditching the army and the State, to somehow maintain what little power or authority they could hold on. It has been, a day in and day out, an endless decade of dirtiest intrigues and murders in which the lions' share was usurped by clever British Government and crafly Dogra Gulab Singh, on the dismemberment of the once mighty Sikh State, to whom one was a proclaimed friend and the other a privileged servant.


1982: Sikh shops burned in Patiala.
1940  S.G.M. Beaty was shot dead by the Babbar Akalis of Malwa at Chatha Sekhwan.


1984: Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minsiter of India, vists Darbar Sahib after operation Bluestar. All Singh Sahibans were present but boycotted this visit. No saroopa was given as a protest and exhibition of Sikh anger.
1972 Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Yogi ordains the first women ever established as ministers of the Sikh Dharma.


=== June 24 ===
1984 Deputy Commissioner Amritsar, criticised the false rumours - naked girls, heroin, drugs, alcohol, tobacco found in Darbar Sahib.


1885: Master Tara Singh was born on 24 June, 1885,(1881 is sometimes used?) in Haryal in Rawalpindi district of North Western Province of undivided India. His mother, Moolan Devi, was a pious lady and his father, Bakshi Gopi Chand, was a patwari of the village and was a well known and respected person. Tara Singh's original name was Nanak Chand. In 1902 Nanak Chand embraced Sikhism and came to be called Tara Singh.


Tara Singh had a bright educational career and was a scholarship holder almost at all stages of his education. In 1907 he passed his B. A. examination from Khalsa College, Amritsar. Later Tara Singh joined as headmaster of Khalsa High School, Lyallpur, at an honorarium of Rs. 15 per month. Since then he came to be known as Master Tara Singh. His career as a teacher ended in 1921, following the Nankana tragedy.
=== June 28 ===


He also edited two Akali newspapers, Akali (Udru) and Akali te Pardesi (Grumukhi) in which he forcefully put forward the aims and objectives of the Akali Dal.
1984: Ujagar Singh and Atma Singh, acting Presidents of the Akali Dal and SGPC, were arrested to sabotage the Akali Dal meeting announced for June 29, 1984.


He took an active part in national politics till his death on 22 November 1967.
1996: Kamaljit Singh Sandhu's body found in a canal. He was one of the seven convicts in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines Boeing on August 23, 1984.


-Ref. "Master Tara Singh, by Verinder Grover, Deep & Deep Publications Delhi, 1995.
=== June 29 ===


1962: Punjabi University was established.
1924: 7th and 8th Sahidhi Jathas of 500 Akali Satyagrahies each, under the leadership of Karmveer Sardar Prtap Singh of Kuradpur (Jallandar) and Sardar Man Singh Hunboo (Shakhupuraa) respectively, courted arrests upon reaching Jaito.


1999: Balbir Singh Bains was abducted from the premises of the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
1984: The Akali Dal met the first since Operation Bluestar.


1984: K.P.S. Gill became the new Director General of Police in the Punjab.
=== June 30 ===
1813: Raja Karam Singh became Maharaja of Patiala. Raja Karam succeded Maharaja Sahib Singh at the age of 15. He helped the British in the conflict with the Gorkhas and was rewarded with 16 parganas (district sub-divisions) in Simla Hills as gifts.
1984: The Indian Government presented its inquiry finding into the Operation Bluestar in the form of a White Paper.
1989: Babbar Khalsa International Conference, Montreal. Babbar Khalsa organization in Canada held its first conference in Montreal to commemorate the Sikh martyrs who laid their lives for the cause of the Sikh nation. The devout Babbars urged Sikhs to observe memories of their courage annually. About 500 Sikhs attended the conference.
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Also see [[Sikh History June]] and [[Sikh History July]]




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Revision as of 15:36, 26 June 2005

Today's Date is: May 12, 2024. Time: 06:52

June 25

1700: Sikhs forces defeated the combined forces of the Hill Rajas and Imperial troops. Guru Gobind Singh Ji's' forces routed the 10,000 combined forces of Hill chiefs and the imperial troops. It was from the Baisakhiof 1699 that the hill chiefs became thirsty for Guru Gobind Singh's blood and resolved to destroy the Sikh Panth which they considered inimical to varnashram dharam. They resolved to try all venues suggested to them by Kautilya's statecraft: weakening the movement from within; instigating people of other faiths against it; and involving it straight away in an armed struggle with the forces of the state to retard its momentum, if not destroy it. This was the first battel of Anandpur Sahib.

1889: Maharaja Dalip Singh sent a message from Geneva to initiate uprising against the British Government..

1924: 9th Shahidi Jatha of 500 Akalis, led by Sardar Kaesar Singh of Vidang, courted arrest upon reaching Jaito.

1944: The Simla Conference was held to decide the future of British India.

1975: Indira Gankhi imposed Internal Emergency on the whole of India.

June 26

1838: Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a tri-party agreement with the British and Shah Sujaul.

1839: Maharaja Ranjit Singh suffered another stroke.

1984: Baba Nihal Singh Hariawalae was arrested.

1984: Panj Payaras demanded from the President, Prime Minister and the Governor of Punjab to give control of "kar sewa" to the SGPC.

June 27

1745: Bhai Taru Singh's scalp was removed by orders of Nawab Zakaria Khan. Nawab Zakaria Khan's orders were carried out and Bhai Taru's scalp was removed. On Harbhagat Naranjania's complaint, Bhai Taru Singh of his village was arrested and accused of providing rations to the Sikhs. Bhai Taru Singh admitted the facts. Nawab Zakaria Khan ordered the removal of his scalp. Bhai Taru Singh said that the Governor would suffer as much torture. And Bhai Taru would take Zakaria Khan along with him to the other world. Upon carrying out Nawab's orders, Zakaria Khan's urinary system stopped functioninh, puttiung him in great pain. The Qazi addressed Bhai Taru Singh "Oh Kafir, what have you done? The Nawab can't urinate. He is in great pain." Bhai Taru Singh told him to take his shoe and beat it on Zakaria's head to make him urinate. On the fifth day of shoe beating, Zakaria Khan died on July 1, 1745. on hearing of that the same day Bhai Taru Singh left his mortal remains.

1839: Maharaja Ranjit Singh passed away in Lahore. Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the great ruler of Punjab for 40 years, breathed his last at 7 P.M. on this day and thus the most brilliant period of Sikh history came to a close. In 1799, Maharaja Ranjit Singh conquered Lahore. Further the neighboring, including greater punjab, Kashmir, Multan, Kangdha, and Attock were brought under Khalsa Raaj. During his reign everyone, including hindus and muslims lived happily and no one dare set their sights on khalsa Raj. On this day the Khalsa lost a leader who had by his commanding personality, foresight and skill secured the Sikhs, the status of a sovereign people. Thus creating a huge void. After the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the stability of the Sikh political system took a nose dive. The three major reasons for the same have been, the ever tightening noose of British power and influence round the kingdom of Lahore Darbar, the contending rival parties and the incapacity of the successors. The Government of Panjab degenerated into a chaotic condition. The real power went in the hands of incompetent nominal rulers, ditching the army and the State, to somehow maintain what little power or authority they could hold on. It has been, a day in and day out, an endless decade of dirtiest intrigues and murders in which the lions' share was usurped by clever British Government and crafly Dogra Gulab Singh, on the dismemberment of the once mighty Sikh State, to whom one was a proclaimed friend and the other a privileged servant.

1940 S.G.M. Beaty was shot dead by the Babbar Akalis of Malwa at Chatha Sekhwan.

1972 Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Yogi ordains the first women ever established as ministers of the Sikh Dharma.

1984 Deputy Commissioner Amritsar, criticised the false rumours - naked girls, heroin, drugs, alcohol, tobacco found in Darbar Sahib.


June 28

1984: Ujagar Singh and Atma Singh, acting Presidents of the Akali Dal and SGPC, were arrested to sabotage the Akali Dal meeting announced for June 29, 1984.

1996: Kamaljit Singh Sandhu's body found in a canal. He was one of the seven convicts in the hijacking of an Indian Airlines Boeing on August 23, 1984.

June 29

1924: 7th and 8th Sahidhi Jathas of 500 Akali Satyagrahies each, under the leadership of Karmveer Sardar Prtap Singh of Kuradpur (Jallandar) and Sardar Man Singh Hunboo (Shakhupuraa) respectively, courted arrests upon reaching Jaito.

1984: The Akali Dal met the first since Operation Bluestar.

1984: K.P.S. Gill became the new Director General of Police in the Punjab.

June 30

1813: Raja Karam Singh became Maharaja of Patiala. Raja Karam succeded Maharaja Sahib Singh at the age of 15. He helped the British in the conflict with the Gorkhas and was rewarded with 16 parganas (district sub-divisions) in Simla Hills as gifts.

1984: The Indian Government presented its inquiry finding into the Operation Bluestar in the form of a White Paper.

1989: Babbar Khalsa International Conference, Montreal. Babbar Khalsa organization in Canada held its first conference in Montreal to commemorate the Sikh martyrs who laid their lives for the cause of the Sikh nation. The devout Babbars urged Sikhs to observe memories of their courage annually. About 500 Sikhs attended the conference.

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