<b>31 October 1984:</b>
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her own bodyguards Satawant Singh and Beant Singh with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. Beant Singh shot her thrice using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired twenty-two rounds into her using a Sten submachine gun. Beant Singh was shot dead and Satwant Singh was shot and arrested by her other bodyguards (hanged after many years through judicial process). Indira Gandhi died on her way to AIIMS, in her official car, but she was not declared dead until many hours later. Official accounts stated as many as 29 entry and exit wounds and 31 bullets were extracted from her body. Anti-Sikh riots started the next day in Delhi and many other parts of India, for which several leaders of Congress party were later found guilty by the courts.
<b>31 October 1649</b>
A letter of Prince Murad Baksh, the then Mughal viceroy of the Deccan, is dated 31 October 1649, which he wrote to Shahji to inform him that Shivaji's appeal for his release (from Bijapur's prison) had been received, and that as the Prince was soon going back to the imperial Court, he would there report the prayers of Shahji to the Emperor Shahajahan and take his orders. He asked the Maratha chief to send his agent to Court to receive the Emperor's firman and assurance of safety, and on his own behalf presented him with a robe of honour. Shivaji had written to Prince Murad Bakhsh, entreating him to secure the Emperors pardon for Shahjis past conduct and protection for him and his sons in future. What both Mughals and Bijapuris failed so see at this stage was that these were ploys of young and shrewd would-be founder of hindavi swaraj, to peacefully free up his father from the prison of the enemy before openly leaping onto their territories.
<b>31 October 1672</b> (or a few days later, per different accounts)
Shivaji begins the invasion of Qutub Shahi telangana. Hearing of this, Mughal viceroy Bahadur Khan quickly set out to its defence from Ahmadnagar due eastwards, and arrived as fast as he could near the fort of Ramgir in pursuit of maratha-s. But he is too late now. The baffled Mughal general returned by way of modern Nizamabad. The unopposed Marathas in their retreat divided into two bodies: one escaping south and storming Golkonda and the other turning northwards to Chanda, and thence westwards into Berar proper.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by her own bodyguards Satawant Singh and Beant Singh with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. Beant Singh shot her thrice using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired twenty-two rounds into her using a Sten submachine gun. Beant Singh was shot dead and Satwant Singh was shot and arrested by her other bodyguards (hanged after many years through judicial process). Indira Gandhi died on her way to AIIMS, in her official car, but she was not declared dead until many hours later. Official accounts stated as many as 29 entry and exit wounds and 31 bullets were extracted from her body. Anti-Sikh riots started the next day in Delhi and many other parts of India, for which several leaders of Congress party were later found guilty by the courts.
<b>31 October 1649</b>
A letter of Prince Murad Baksh, the then Mughal viceroy of the Deccan, is dated 31 October 1649, which he wrote to Shahji to inform him that Shivaji's appeal for his release (from Bijapur's prison) had been received, and that as the Prince was soon going back to the imperial Court, he would there report the prayers of Shahji to the Emperor Shahajahan and take his orders. He asked the Maratha chief to send his agent to Court to receive the Emperor's firman and assurance of safety, and on his own behalf presented him with a robe of honour. Shivaji had written to Prince Murad Bakhsh, entreating him to secure the Emperors pardon for Shahjis past conduct and protection for him and his sons in future. What both Mughals and Bijapuris failed so see at this stage was that these were ploys of young and shrewd would-be founder of hindavi swaraj, to peacefully free up his father from the prison of the enemy before openly leaping onto their territories.
<b>31 October 1672</b> (or a few days later, per different accounts)
Shivaji begins the invasion of Qutub Shahi telangana. Hearing of this, Mughal viceroy Bahadur Khan quickly set out to its defence from Ahmadnagar due eastwards, and arrived as fast as he could near the fort of Ramgir in pursuit of maratha-s. But he is too late now. The baffled Mughal general returned by way of modern Nizamabad. The unopposed Marathas in their retreat divided into two bodies: one escaping south and storming Golkonda and the other turning northwards to Chanda, and thence westwards into Berar proper.