10 September
World Suicide Prevention Day.
10 September, 1623
Shah Jahan entered Rajputana, raiding Amber after crossing the Tapti River. He advanced toward the kingdom of Golconda and then moved on to Orissa, which surrendered to him.
10 September, 1872
Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji “Ranji,” Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, was born in Sarodar village near Jamnagar, Kathiawad. A notable cricketer, Ranji was called “The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game,” and played for Sussex.
10 September, 1887
Govind Ballabh Pant was born in Khunt, Almora District, U.P. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for eight years and was a prominent parliamentary figure. Pant was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1959.
10 September, 1894
George Smith, a London taxi driver, became the first person to be convicted of drunken driving.
10 September, 1898
Empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
10 September, 1915
Jatindranath Mukherjee, a revolutionary, passed away after being wounded in a battle between revolutionaries and police forces in Balasore.
10 September, 1918
Muslim riots erupted in Calcutta.
10 September, 1920
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born in Hadagali, Karnataka. His contributions to statistics, including the Cramer-Rao inequality and the Fisher-Rao theorem, earned him numerous accolades, such as the S. S. Bhatnagar Award and the Guy Medal.
10 September, 1936
The first World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship was held at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
10 September, 1943
Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira, and Anandan were hanged in Madras Jail for conspiracy to wage war against the King. They sang “Vande Mataram” and shouted “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” as they were hanged.
10 September, 1960
At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, running the marathon barefoot.
10 September, 1966
Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill, leading to the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.
10 September, 1967
The people of Gibraltar voted to remain a British dependency rather than joining Spain.
10 September, 1976
An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.
10 September, 1977
The Planning Commission of India introduced the Rolling Plan concept.
10 September, 1980
Mangalore University was established.
10 September, 1988
Steffi Graf, a 19-year-old West German tennis player, became the third woman in history to win the Grand Slam by winning the Australian, French, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open singles titles in the same year.
10 September, 1992
All movable and immovable properties of Harshad Mehta and others involved in the Securities Scam were attached.
10 September, 1993
India and South Korea signed an agreement to expand trade and investment.
10 September, 1995
87 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assumed office.
10 September, 1996
The Central Ethical Committee of ICMR on Human Research held its first meeting under the chairmanship of Justice (Retired) M.N. Venkatachaliah. Several subcommittees were formed to address topics such as Epidemiological Research and Organ Transplantation.
10 September, 1999
Sonia Gandhi filed her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
10 September, 1999
Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes, top-seeded Indian tennis players, finished runners-up in the U.S. Open doubles final.
10 September, 2000
Marat Safin won the men’s singles title at the U.S. Open Championship.
10 September, 2002
Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, became a full member of the United Nations.
Famous Birthdays on September 10
10 September, 1753
Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect, was born.
10 September, 1858
Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, a notable Gujarati author and poet, was born.
10 September, 1872
Maharaja K. S. Ranjitsingh, an Indian cricketer after whom the Ranji Trophy is named, was born.
10 September, 1887
Govind Vallabh Pant, Indian freedom fighter and politician, was born. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1957.
10 September, 1892
Arthur Compton, an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for discovering the Compton Effect, was born.
10 September, 1895
Viswanatha Satyanarayana, an Indian Telugu writer and poet, was born.
10 September, 1911
Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician, and trade unionist, was born in Comilla, Bangladesh.
10 September, 1912
Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born.
10 September, 1920
C. A. Rao, Indian-American mathematician, was born.
10 September, 1924
K.T. Gopalkrishnan, a Hindi writer, was born in Azhicode.
10 September, 1965
Atul Kulkarni, an Indian actor and national award winner, was born.
10 September, 1972
Anurag Kashyap, an Indian film director and producer, was born.
10 September, 1978
Manju Warrier, an Indian actress, was born.
Death Anniversaries on September 10
10 September, 210 BC
Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, passed away.
10 September, 1842
William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and 1st Governor of New Zealand, passed away.
10 September, 1915
Bagha Jatin, Indian freedom fighter, passed away.
10 September, 1920
Subramhanyam Bharti, Tamil poet, philosopher, and revolutionary, passed away.
10 September, 1923
Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright, passed away. He was the father of filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
10 September, 1983
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, former Prime Minister of South Africa, passed away.
10 September, 2000
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, a pioneering Pakistani journalist, author, and feminist, passed away.
