Year 1633
Galileo was tried for claiming that the earth revolves around the sun.
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20 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 20 September.
Year 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857 – British (East India Company) troops retook Delhi.
Year 1878
G. Subramania Iyer founded ‘The Hindu’ English newspaper.
Year 1928
In Rome, the supreme legislative body, the Chamber of Deputies, was taken over by the Fascists.
Year 1946
The first Cannes Film Festival opened.
Year 1965
Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Year 1977
Vietnam joined the United Nations.
Year 1979
Africa’s most bizarre dictator, self-styled Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Empire, was overthrown today in a coup by his cousin, David Dacko.
Year 2001
The US declared ‘war on terror’.
Born 1911
Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher and activist (d. 1991)
Born 1909
Gulabdas Harjivandas Broker, Indian-Gujarati writer, and critic.
Born 1923
Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, Indian actor, and producer.
Born 1925
Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thialand.
Born 1934
Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist.
Born 1934
Sophia Loren, the Italian actress who married to the man who groomed her for stardom, Carlo Ponti, won an Oscar for ‘Two Women’ and proved her abilities as a comedienne in ‘The millionairess.’
Born 1943
Jayant Hazarika, Indian singer.
Born 1946
Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and Justice.
Born 1946
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Spiritual Master, Head of Science of Spirituality.
Born 1948
Mahesh Bhatt, Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Born 1952
Shekhar Basu, Indian nuclear scientist.
Died 1810
Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir, an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.
Died 1863
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law of linguistics.
Died 1928
Narayana Guru, also known as Shree Narayana Guru Swami, was a spiritual leader, saint and social reformer from Kerala, India.
Died 1933
Annie Besant, a British socialist, theosophist, women’s rights activist, writer, orator, educationist, and philanthropist. Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.
Died 1942
Kanaklata Barua, an Indian independence activist and AISF leader.
Died 1979
Ludwig Svoboda, Czechoslovakian President.
Died 2015
Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian entrepreneur. He had served as president of BCCI and ICC.