History News Desk !!! September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are still 113 days left in the year.
1776 – The US Parliament Congress officially changed the name of the country from ‘United Colonies’ to United States of America. 1850 – California became the 31st state of America. 1867 – European country Luxembourg gained independence. 1915 – Conflict between famous Indian revolutionary Sachindranath Sanyal and the British in Kaptewada, Orissa. 1920 – Aligarh’s Anglo Oriental College was converted into ‘Aligarh Muslim University’. 1924 – Kohat riots took place in India from 9 September to 11 September. 1949 – India’s Constituent Assembly accepted English as the official language. 1976 – Mao Tse Tung passed away and Kuo Feng became the President. 1939 – During the Second World War, Nazi forces reached Versailles. 1954 – 1400 people died due to earthquake in the African country Algeria. 1965 – Tibet became an autonomous region of China. 1967 – Uganda became independent from Britain. 1979 – Jogendranath Hazarika assumed the post of Chief Minister. 1991 – Tajikistan gained independence from the Soviet Union. 1998 – Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sent his much-discussed report to the Congress on the US President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky case. 1999 – India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Japan’s Ark Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title of the US Open. 2001 – Venus Williams defeated her younger sister Serena in the Grand Slam final. 2002 – Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi to win the US Open tennis title. 2004 – Palestine’s Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei resigned from his post. 2005 – Mahatma Gandhi’s statue was unveiled in Chaoyang Park in Beijing, China. 2006 – In view of international pressure, Israel ended the eight-week-long naval blockade of Lebanon. Spacecraft Atlantis took off for space from Cape Canaveral Space Center in the US state of Florida. 2007 – Hollywood actor Brad Pitt was awarded the Best Actor award and Kate Blanchett the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. 2008 – It was announced that eminent English literature writer and public speaker Dr. Arjundas Keshari will be awarded the ‘Sahitya Mahapadhyay’ decoration. The Supreme Court allowed the CBI to question two judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Nirmal Yadav and Nirmal Jeet Kaur, in the Rs 15 lakh bribe case. 2009 – The Railway Ministry announced the introduction of a biometric identification system for its employees on the lines of the Home Ministry. 2010 – It was decided to give the ‘Dada Saheb Phalke Award’. 2011- Paleontologists have discovered a relic. It is the oldest ancestor of humans which was found on earth about 20 lakh years ago. It looks like a monkey and its name is ‘Australopithecus sediba’. Scientists have discovered two different biological stresses associated with autism, which they claim will lead to the development of effective treatment for the disease. These discoveries are being compared to the discoveries of different types of cancer in the 1960s and there is hope that communication, socialization and other problems of children suffering from autism can be dealt with more easily and quickly. 2012 – More than a hundred people died in a bomb attack in Iraq, 350 others injured.
People born on September 9
1998 – Tulika Maan – India’s Judo player. 1828 – Leo Tolstoy – was a great Russian novelist. 1850 – Bharatendu Harishchandra – was a famous English writer and playwright. 1907 – Mehboob Khan – was the leading producer-director in Indian cinema history. 1905 – Hussain Shah – Indian philosopher. 1908 – Brij Bhan – was a politician of Indian National Congress and freedom fighter. 1967 – Akshay Kumar – is a famous Bollywood actor. 1974 – Vikram Batra – was an Indian soldier. 1909 – Leela Chitnis – was a famous English film actress. 1874 – Gopal Chandra Praharaj – was a famous writer and linguist of Oriya language. 1942 – Mani Madhukar – is a famous writer. 1932 – Kanti Kumar Jain – famous English writer. 1978 – Jyoti Sunita Kullu – is a well-known female hockey player of India. 1894 – Hamidullah Khan – was the last Nawab of Bhopal State in India. 1880 – Arjun Lal Sethi – was one of the freedom fighters of India.
died on 9 september
1999- Jogesh Das – was one of the famous litterateurs of Assamese language. 1982- Sheikh Abdullah – Leader of Kashmir. 1980- Sadashiv Tripathi – Indian National Congress politician and 5th Chief Minister of Orissa. 1981- Lala Jagat Narayan – Famous journalist and founder of Hind Samachar Group. 1968- Ramvriksh Benipuri – India’s famous novelist, story writer, essayist, playwright, revolutionary, journalist and editor. 2012- Verghese Kurien – Famous industrialist and father of White Revolution. 1947- Anand Kumar Swami – India’s well-known art connoisseur and thinker. 1921- Akbar Allahabadi – was a very strong and courageous poet of Hindustani language and Hindustani culture.
