Year 1803
British General Lake captured Delhi in India.
SEPTEMBER 14
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14 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 14 September.
Year 1901
Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th and youngest president of the US at the age of 43.
Year 1917
Russia declared its empire Russian Republic.
Year 1948
Indian Army captured the city of Daulatabad as part of Operation Polo.
Year 1949
Hindi language was declared as the national language of India and celebrated as Hindi Day. But, South Indian states don’t consider the Hindi language as National Language.
Year 1959
Man reached out and made contact with the Moon for the first time. Lunik II, a Soviet spacecraft, crash-landed on the moon after a two days journey. It sent back a stream of scientific data during the trip.
Year 1960
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was created by Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
Year 1975
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, canonized by Pope Paul VI, became the first American saint.
Year 1997
Ahmedabad-Howrah express plunged into a river in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, which caused 81 deaths of people.
Year 2000
Microsoft had released Windows ME.
Year 2015
The first observation of Gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Born 1769
Boron von Humboldt, a German scientist who explored Central and South America and published data that forms the foundation of the study of ecology, which he initiated.
Born 1774
Lord William Bentinck, He was a British soldier and statesman. He served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835. He has been credited for significant social and educational reforms in India including abolishing Sati, suppressing female infanticide, and human sacrifice.
Born 1879
Margaret Higgins Sanger, an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
Born 1887
Charles Dana Gibson, an American artist who created the Gibson Girl, an idealist picture of a woman which set a new style of American femininity.
Born 1923
Ram Jethmalani, an Indian lawyer, and politician.
Born 1963
Robin Singh, Trinidadian-Indian cricketer and coach
Born 1968
Tanya Arvind Dubash, Indian businesswoman. She is an executive director and chief brand officer at the Godrej Group.
Born 1975
Rahul Sharma, an Indian businessman, founder of Revolt Motors, YU Televentures, and the co-founder of Micromax Informatics. He married to actress Asin Thottumukal.
Born 1984
Ayushmann Khurrana, Indian actor and singer.
Died 1712
Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer. Cassini discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn
Died 1836
Aaron Burr, an American politician, and lawyer. A Founding Father, he served as the third vice president of the United States during President Thomas Jefferson’s first term
Died 1901
William McKinley, an American politician. He was the 25th President of the United States, the last one to have served in the American Civil War.
Died 1996
Juliet Prowse, Indian-South African actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1937)
Died 1998
Yang Shangkun, 4th president of the People’s Republic of China.
Died 2005
Robert Wise, American Oscan winning film director.
Died 2011
Harishchandra Madhavrao Birajdar, a wrestler and wrestling coach from India. He was a Gold Medallist in the 1970 British Commonwealth Games. He was also known as the coach of National Games winners.
Died 2015
Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway.