Year 1615
Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.
SEPTEMBER 18
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18 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 18 September.
Year 1759
French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.
Year 1803
Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.
Year 1803
Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.
Year 1810
Chile got independence from Spain.
Year 1851
The first edition of the New York Times was published.
Year 1882
The Pacific Stock Exchange opened.
Year 1914
The Irish Home Rule Bill was given to Royal assent.
Year 1919
The Netherlands gave women the right to vote.
Year 1924
Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. "Nothing I say or write," he said, "can bring the two communities together." Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. "It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide".
Year 1927
Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce was established.
Year 1932
A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence.
Year 1947
The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were established in the United States.
Year 1948
Operation polo was terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
Year 1962
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda, Trinidad, and Tobago joined the United Nations.
Year 1965
Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China.
Year 1967
English was adopted the official language of Nagaland .
Year 1971
In Krishnapur, the Pakistani occupation army shot 127 Bengali Hindus to death. In the neighboring villages, more than 100 Hindus were killed.
Year 1972
Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
Year 1972
India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.
Year 1978
President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israel’s Prime minister Menachem Begin reached a peace agreement.
Year 2000
Prasar Bharati issues a notification making it compulsory for cable operators to telecast regional channels of Doordarshan on prime band, in addition to DD-1 and DD-2, in their respective states.
Year 2000
President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Year 2016
The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad results in the deaths of nineteen Indian Army soldiers and all four attackers.
Born On This Day
AD 53: Trajan, Roman emperor.
Born 1709
Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer and celebrated conventionalist whose dictionary used as the authoritative reference book for more than a century.
Born 1867
Ganendranath Tagore, Indian painter, and cartoonist.
Born 1879
Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born.
Born 1883
Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian revolutionary.
Born 1900
Shivsagar Ramgoolam, the first Prime Minister of Mauritius.
Born 1905
Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress.
Born 1906
Kaka Hathrasi, Indian poet and author (d. 1995)
Born 1909
Kwane Nkrumah, Ghanaian prime minister and then president from independence in 1957.
Born 1909
Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born.
Born 1917
Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
Born 1925
Pranlal Harkisandas Vora, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
Born 1941
Arjuncharan Srimukh Sethi was born in Odang village in Balasore (now known as Bhadrak) in Orissa.
Born 1945
John McAfee, an American computer programmer, and businessman. He founded the software company McAfee Associates in 1987.
Born 1950
Shabana Azmi, Indian actress. She is a wife of a famous poet from India Javed Akhtar.
Born 1950
Vishnuvardhan, an Indian actor who works predominantly in Kannada language films.
Born 1968
Upendra Rao, Indian actor, director, and politician
Born 1971
Lance Armstrong, the American cyclist who won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999, after surviving cancer for which he now raises awareness and support.
Died 1783
Leonard Euler, Swiss mathematician.
Died 1911
Pyotr Stolypin, Russian Premier. He died after being shot down at the opera in Kiew last week by a police double agent.
Died 1915
Susan La Flesche Picotte, doctor, teacher, and social reformer, first Native American to earn a medical degree.
Died 1930
Joseph Baptista, an Indian politician and activist.
Died 1958
Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, passed away.
Died 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate.
Died 1967
Sir John Cockroft, an English nuclear physicist who first splits the atom.
Died 1990
Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.
Died 1992
Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (b. 1905)
Died 1993
Asit Sen, famous comedy actor and character artist, died.
Died 1995
Kaka Hathrasi, India poet and comedian.
Died 2013
Veliyam Bharghavan, Indian politician (b. 1928)
Died 2017
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Pakistani writer, poet, translator, and playwright.