Year 1422
The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali.
SEPTEMBER 22
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22 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 22 September.
Year 1499
Treaty of Basel and Switzerland became independent nations.
Year 1599
24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with share capital in India.
Year 1687
Aurangzeb ended Kutubshah kingdom.
Year 1789
Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
Year 1888
The first issue of The National Geographic Magazine was published.
Year 1931
Meeting of Hemsamsher Rana, Prince of Nepal, and Veer Savarkar.
Year 1937
The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was sent to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Year 1965
Second Kashmir War: The second Kashmir war between India and Pakistan came to a halt after a UN ceasefire order.
Year 1979
Israel conducts a nuclear test in the Indian Ocean.
Year 1979
Maulana Abdul Ali Moudoodi aka Syed Abul A'la Maududi Chishti, founder leader of the Jamait- E- Islam, died in USA, he had taken pakistani citizenship.
Year 1980
The war between Iran and Iraq Began in the Gulf.
Year 1992
Indo-British Extradition Treaty signed in London.
Year 1995
High Court ruled that citizens have the right to fly the national flag at home or in the office.
Year 1995
An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
Year 1995
The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
Year 2003
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered Jupiter’s atmosphere and died.
Year 2013
At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Born 1791
Michael Faraday, an English physicist who invented the dynamo and formed many of the principles of electricity.
Born 1869
V. S. Srinivasashastri, Indian Lawyer, Politician, President of Bharat Sevak Samaj. Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu.
Born 1880
Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English suffragette, and daughter of Emmeline, who led the suffragette movement.
Born 1887
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India.
Born 1902
Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, (right-hand batsman who batted in India's first two Tests), was born in Bombay.
Born 1916
N. Krishna Pillai was an Indian dramatist, literary critic, translator, and historian of Malayalam language.
Born 1922
Chen Ning Yang, the Nobel Prize-winning Chinese physicist.
Born 1923
Ramkrishna Bajaj, a veteran freedom fighter and industrialist.
Born 1928
Eric Broadly, an English engineer and businessman, founded Lola cars.
Born 1966
Ravi Jadhav, Indian film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.
Born 1980
Anisa Sayyed, Indian female pistol shooter who won two gold medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Died 1520
Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Died 1539
Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism and the first Guru.
Died 1688
François Bernier, French physician, and traveler. He was briefly personal physician to Mughal prince Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Died 1828
Shaka, Zulu Emperor.
Died 1891
Gangopadhyay Taraknath, a famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.
Died 1952
Carlo Juho Stahlberg, Finland’s first president.
Died 1952
Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telugu novelist, poet and author, died.
Died 1956
Frederick Soddy, Nobel Prize-winning English chemist. He explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
Died 1970
Shardendu Bandopadhyay, Indian-Bengali writer.
Died 1991
Durga Khote, film actress and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 86 years.
Died 1994
G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died.
Died 2011
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricket captain and last Nawab of Pataudi Sansthan.
Died 2018
Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (b. 1943)
Died 2018
Edna Molewa, South African politician (b. 1957)
Died 2018
Mike Labinjo, Canadian professional gridiron football player (b. 1980)