Year 1803
Second Anglo-Maratha War: The Battle between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye.
SEPTEMBER 23
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23 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 23 September.
Year 1846
Urban Lee Warrier discovered the planet Neptune. It is the first planet to be discovered by mathematical arithmetic.
Year 1905
Norway and Sweden, previously united, decided to secede through the Karlstad Agreement.
Year 1908
Establishment of the University of Alberta in Canada.
Year 1932
The Hejaz and Nejd kingdoms have renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Year 1965
The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect.
Year 1974
The world’s first Ceefax Teletext service began on BBC television in Britain.
Year 1974
First NCC Airforce Squadran (Women) was established at Vanasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan.
Year 1980
Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial.
Year 1983
Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope.
Year 1990
World Bank clears Rs.1,200 crore aid for Sarovar Dam rejecting objections raised by environmental groups.
Year 1992
Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested.
Year 1999
India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control.
Year 2002
The first version of the Mozilla Firefox browser released.
Year 2004
Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
Year 2008
Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide.
Year 2010
The world’s biggest wind farm was inaugurated off the UK coast in Thanet, Kent.
Year 2019
The British travel company, Thomas Cook Group, declares bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs and 600,000 customers stranded abroad. Hotels throughout the world are stuck with £3.5 million (U.S. $4.3 million) in unpaid bills.[
Born On This Day
63 BC: Gaius Octavius Caesar, first Roman emperor, the adopted son and heir of Julius Caesar.
Born 1215
Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor.
Born 1819
Armand Hippolyte, French physicist who first measured the speed of light.
Born 1861
Robert Bosch, founder of the Bosch Company.
Born 1862
Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born.
Born 1892
Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, a Muslim Hanafi scholar, and religious and political leader from the Indian subcontinent.
Born 1903
Yusuf Meher Ali, a socialist leader, and freedom fighter.
Born 1906
Kumar (Mijjan) alias Syed Hasan Ali, film actor, was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has worked in 'Shadows of the Dead', 'Dukhiari', 'Gambler', 'Patan ni Paniari', 'Thoure of Delhi'.
Born 1908
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, a patriot and Hindi poet. He is considered one of the most important modern Hindi poets.
Born 1911
Rappal Sangameshwar Krishnan, an Indian physicist.
Born 1917
Asima Chatterjee, an Indian chemist.
Born 1935
Prem Chopra, Indian actor.
Born 1943
Tanuja, Indian actress.
Born 1950
Dr. Abhay Bang, Indian Sociologist. He predominantly works for the upliftment of Adivasi people in Maharashtra state.
Born 1957
Kumar Sanu, Indian playback singer. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood songs.
Born 1952
Anshuman Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
Died 1743
Sawai Jaising died.
Died 1858
Grant Duff, a British soldier and historian from Scotland who wrote the history of the Marathas.
Died 1863
Rao Tularam Singh Yadav, freedom fighter, was one of the key leaders of the Indian rebellion of 1857, in Haryana, where he is considered a state hero.
Died 1870
Prosper Mérimée, French writer, historian, and archaeologist.
Died 1882
Friedrich Wohler, German chemist. He was the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form. He was the first to prepare several inorganic compounds including silane and silicon nitride.
Died 1939
Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considers as the father of modern psychology.
Died 2004
Dr. Death of Raja Ramanna, Indian scientist, 4th Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Died 2015
Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930)