Historical Events - September 20
1633: Galileo was tried for claiming that the earth revolves around the sun.
1857: Indian Rebellion of 1857 – British (East India Company) troops retook Delhi.
1878: G. Subramania Iyer founded ‘The Hindu’ English newspaper.
1928: In Rome, the supreme legislative body, the Chamber of Deputies, was taken over by the Fascists.
1946: The first Cannes Film Festival opened.
1977: Vietnam joined the United Nations.
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.
2001: The US declared ‘war on terror’.
Famous Birthdays – September 20
1911: Shriram Sharma, Indian philosopher, and activist.
1909: Gulabdas Harjivandas Broker, Indian-Gujarati writer, and critic.
1923: Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, Indian actor, and producer.
1925: Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thialand.
1934: Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist.
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.’
1943: Jayant Hazarika, Indian singer.
1946: Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and Justice.
1946: Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Spiritual Master, Head of Science of Spirituality.
1948: Mahesh Bhatt, Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
1952: Shekhar Basu, Indian nuclear scientist.
Death Anniversaries – September 20
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.
1863: Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He is known as the discoverer of Grimm’s Law of linguistics.
1928: Narayana Guru, also known as Shree Narayana Guru Swami, was a spiritual leader, saint and social reformer from Kerala, India.
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.
1942: Kanaklata Barua, an Indian independence activist and AISF leader.
1979: Ludwig Svoboda, Czechoslovakian President.
2015: Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian entrepreneur. He had served as president of BCCI and ICC.
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