Friday, 22 March 2013

Some historic facts - September

1st September 
1798 - Britishers sign treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad.
1916 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania.
1939 - Second world war starts with Germany attacking Poland.
1942 - "Raas Behari Bose" forms Indian National Army.
1947 - Indian standard time starts.
1948 - World health organization established.
1956 - Formation of Life Insurance Corporation of India.

3rd September
1683 - Turkey attacks Vienna.
1767 - "Colonel Smith" defeats "Nizam and Haider Ali" in battle of Changma.
1783 - Paris treaty signed.
1924 - Civil war starts in China.
1939 - Britain and France declare war on Germany.
1944 - France frees Lyon.
1964 - America's attorney General "Robert Kennedy" resigns.
1971 - Qatar becomes fully independent from British rule.

4th September
1665 - Treaty of "Purandar" signed between Mughals and Maratha king Shivaji.
1825 - Birth of "Dadabhai Naraoji".
1904 - Heavy economic loss in Florida due to Hurricane.
1914 - Britain, France and Russia sign London agreement against Germany.
1967 - 200 people die in earthquake in Koyna Dam measuring 6.5 on Richter scale.
1981 - USA tests nuclear missile in Nevada.

5th September
1888 - Birth of "Dr. S. Radhakrishnan". This day in 1962 was declared Teacher's day.
1957 - Property tax law passed in India.
1997 - Respected "Mother Teresa" dies in Kolkata.

7th September
1813 - The word "Uncle Sam" is used for the first time in relation to USA (in New York Troy post).
1822 - Brazil declares itself independent from Portugal.
1923 - "Interpol" formed in Vienna.
1977 - Ethiopia ends political relations with Somalia.

8th September
1960 - "Feroz Gandhi" husband of Smt. Indira Gandhi dies.
1962 - China attacks India.
1967 - New constitution adopted in Uganda.

10th September
1887 - Birth of Indian freedom fighter "Govind Vallabh Pant".
1915 - Revolutionary "Jatindranath Mukherjee" dies in Orissa.
1939 - Canada declares war on Nazis in second world war.
1966 - Indian parliament approves formation of Punjab and Haryana states.
1974 - Guinea-Bissau becomes independent from Portugal.
1976 - Indian Airlines plane Boeing-737 hijacked in Lahore.
2002 - Switzerland becomes member of United Nations.

11th September
1893 - "Swami Vivekananda" gives his first speech in Chicago.
1895 - Birth of "Acharya Vinobha Bhave" who was organiser of "Bhudan Andolan".
1906 - Mahatma Gandhi named non-violent revolution started in South Africa as "Satyagrah".
1948 - "Mohammad Ali Jinnah" dies.
1961 - Formation of WWF (World Wildlife Federation".
1997 - NASA's surveillance spacecraft reaches Mars.
2001 - Attack on World Trade Center in USA.

12th September
1398 - "Timur Lang" of Afghanistan's Fergana province crosses Indus river and attacks India.
1786 - Lord Cornwallis becomes Governor General and commander in chief of India.
1948 - Indian forces include Hyderabad in India.
1959 - Soviet Union sends rocket Lunik II to moon.
1999 - Indonesia allows international peace group to go to East Timor.
2005 - Israel removes soldiers from Gaza.

14th September
1803 - Lord Lake captures Delhi.
1868 - "Swami Virjanand" dies.
1901 - American president "William Mckinley" dies.
1937 - Czech republic's first president and revolutionary "Thomas Masaryk" dies.
1939 - Helicopter VS300 takes its first flight.

15th September
1860 - Birth of respected engineer "M. Vishvesvarya".
1909 - Birth of famous political leader and one of the founding members of DMK "C N Annadurai".
1935 - "Manuel L. Quezon" becomes Phillipines' first president.
1948 - First warship of independent India "INS Delhi" reaches Mumbai port.
1949 - "Konrad Adenauer" becomes west Germany's first chancellor.
1959 - Television programs start in New Delhi.

16th September
1975 - Papua New Guinea gets independence from Australia.
1976 - Episcopalian church of USA gave permission to women to become priest and bishop.
1977 - Famous Indian vocalist "Kesarbai Kerkar" dies.
1978 - 25000 people die due to earthquake in Iran.
1996 - Romania and Hungary sign agreement to settle disputes.

17th September
1876 - Birth of famous Indian novelist "Sharat Chandra Chatopadhyaya".
1948 - UN ambassador "Count folke" who was settling disputes between Israel and Arabian countries was killed.
1982 - First cricket test match played between India and Sri Lanka.

18th September
1615 - British king "James I's" ambassador "Sir Thomas Roe" comes to Surat to meet Indian king "Jahangir".
1803 - British forces capture Puri city of Orissa state in India.
1967 - Nagaland state of India adopts English as working language.
1986 - Women's air crew for the first time flied Jet from Bombay to Goa.

21st September
1790 - "General Midows" led British forces capture Palwar fort built by Mysore king "Haider Ali".
1857 - Delhi'sking "Bahadur Shah II" surrenders to Britishers.
1933 - "Annie Beasant" dies.
1949 - "People's Republic of China" is declared as new country.
1954 - Last troop of Indian soldiers retreat from Tibet.
1966 - Indian swimmer "Mihir Sen" crosses Bosporus channel.
1994 - Freedom fighter and industrialist "Ramkrishna Bajaj" dies.

22nd September
1539 - First Guru of Sikhs "Guru Nanak Dev ji" dies in Dera Baba Nanak.
1599 - 24 businessmen met at founders hall in London to form a new company to do trade in India. Later this company was named as East India Company.
1977 - American football team "Cosmos" reached Kolkata to play 2 exhibition matches under the guidance of world famous Brazilian footballer "Pele".

25th September
1524 - "Vasco da Gama" reaches India on his last visit.
1639 - First printing press started in USA.
1886 - Formation of first laughing opera "Dorothy" in London.

30th September
1207 - Birth of famous Persian poet "Rumi".
1687 - Aurangzeb captures Hyderabad's Golconda fort.
1882 - World's first commercial hydel power project starts on "Fox river" in USA.
1898 - Establishing of "New York city".
1947 - Pakistan becomes member of UN.
1967 - BBC radio 1 starts.
1968 - First flight of Boeing 747.
1993 - Thousands of people die due to earthquake in Maharashtra's Latur and Osmanabad districts.






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