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Historical Event on 9/14/1820
Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/6/1996 | CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case. |
| 9/10/1920 | Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away. |
| 2/14/1952 | Smt. Sushma Kaushal Swaraj was born in Ambala Cantt. (Haryana). |
| 10/16/1971 | David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere. |
| 1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
| 1/12/2000 | T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired. |
| 9/18/1924 | 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"". |
| 3/21/1996 | Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 4/8/1973 | India takes control over Sikkim after anti-government riots. |
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