This Day in "History"

[Thakur]

June 20

451 Roman and barbarian warriors halt Attila’s army at the Catalaunian Plains in eastern France.
1397 The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one monarch.
1756 Nearly 150 British soldiers are imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole’ cell of Calcutta. Most die.
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a cotton gin patent.
1819 The paddle-wheel steamship Savannah arrives in Liverpool, England, after a voyage of 27 days and 11 hours–the first steamship to successfully cross the Atlantic.
1837 18-year-old Victoria is crowned Queen of England.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln admits West Virginia into the Union as the 35th state.
1898 On the way to the Philippines to fight the Spanish, the U.S. Navy seizes the island of Guam.
1901 Charlotte M. Manye of South Africa becomes the first native African to graduate from an American University.
1910 Mexican President Porfirio Diaz proclaims martial law and arrests hundreds.
1920 Race riots in Chicago, Illinois leave two dead and many wounded.
1923 France announces it will seize the Rhineland to assist Germany in paying her war debts.
1941 The U.S. Army Air Force is established, replacing the Army Air Corps.
1955 The AFL and CIO agree to combine names for a merged group.
1963 The United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a hot line between Washington and Moscow.
1964 General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of the U.S. forces in Vietnam.
1967 Boxing champion Muhammad Ali is convicted of refusing induction into the American armed services.
1972 President Richard Nixon names General Creigton Abrams as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1999 NATO declares an official end to its bombing campaign of Yugoslavia.
Born on June 20

1723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philopsopher (Principals of Moral and Political Science).
1858 Charles Chesnutt, African-American novelist.
1887 Kurt Schwitters, German artist.
1899 Jean Moulin, French Resistance fighter during World War II.
1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (The Little Foxes, Toys in the Attic).
1909 Errol Flynn, film actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood).
1910 Chester Arthur Burnett, blues singer.
1910 Josephine Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Jordanstown, Wildwood).
1924 Chet Atkins, guitarist.
1924 Audie Murphy, American soldier during World War II, author and actor.
1928 Jean-Marie Le-Pen, leader of the National Front party in France.
1946 Andre Watts, pianist.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 20

20-June-712
Muhammad of Bin Quasim
(Kasim), Arabs, attacked
on Sindh and captured it.
Muhammad defeated and
killed King Dahir, Hindu
king, at Rawar.

20-June-1574
Akbar himself left Agra.

20-June-1756
A group of British soldiers
along with Halvel were
imprisoned by some
rebellions in a suffocating
cell that gained notoriety
as the ""Black Hole of
Calcutta."" Most of them
died h

20-June-1858
Gwalior fort was captured
by British troops and the
first Indian Sepoy Mutiny
officially came to an end.

20-June-1869
Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great
industrialist, social
reformer, patriot and
founder of Kirloskar
Industry, was born at
Belgaum.

20-June-1873
Young Men Christian
Association of India was
established in Calcutta.

20-June-1897
Ratnakant Barkakti,
famous Assamia poet, was
born.

20-June-1911
Dattatray Purushottam
Karmarkar, veteran
freedom fighter and
former cabinet minister,
died.

20-June-1916
Sreemati Nathibai
Damodher Thackersey
(SNDT) Indian Women' s
University, first women's
and the fifth Indian
University, was
established in Pune by
D.K. Karve.

20-June-1918
K.K. Singh, politician and
social worker, was born at
Agra.

20-June-1921
Tilak University was
established.

20-June-1939
Ramakant Bhikaji Desai,
cricketer (effective pace
bowler for India in the
60s), was born in Bombay.

20-June-1946
Gandhiji attends Working
Committee meeting from
20-21 June.

20-June-1946
Kashmir authorities arrest
President-elect Nehru for
refusing to obey an order
banning him from the
state.

20-June-1948
Lord Mountbatten resigns
as the Governor General
of Indian Union.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

20-June-1957
Govindrao Burhanpurkar,
famous harmonium
player, died.
20-June-1972
Paras Laxmikant
Mhambrey, great Indian
cricket pace bowler (Test
v England 1996), was born
in Bombay.
20-June-1979
Renedy Singh, Indian
Soccer(Football) player,
was born in Manipur
20-June-1985
The Medal of Freedom,
America's highest civilian
decoration, was presented
to Mother Teresa by
President Ronald Reagan.
20-June-1987
Dr. Salim Ali,
internationally renowned
expert of birds, died at
Bombay.
20-June-1992
CPM decides to back Dr.
Sharma.
20-June-1992
Carnatic musician
Maharajapuram
Santhanam died in a car
accident in Villupuram in
Tamil Nadu.
20-June-1992
The JD and the NF choose
former Lok Sabha Dy
Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell
as the Presidential
candidate.
20-June-1993
Harshad Mehta's senior
counsel Ram Jethmalani
asks JPC to summon the
PM and allow cross-
examination.
20-June-1994
Anti-Pakistan slogans rent
the air in Jammu &
Kashmir against the
killing of Quazi Nissar
Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South
Kashmir and a famous
religious Kashmiri leader
who was gunned down by
Pak-aided terrorists.
20-June-1995
B.R. Verma was made pro-
tem Speaker by Governor
by invoking Article 180 (1)
.
20-June-1995
Mayavati Government
wins vote of confidence.
20-June-1996
Govt. of India declares at
Geneva conference on
'Global Ban On Nuclear
Testing' that it won't sign
the CTBT.
20-June-1997
Basu Bhattacharya (65),
film-maker, died in
Mumbai.
20-June-1997
Second round of Foreign
Secretary-level talks
between India and
Pakistan starts in
Islamabad.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 21

21-June-1576
Mughal army defeated Rana
Pratapsingh in the battle of
Haldighat.

21-June-1814
Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor
General of East Indian Company,
died.

21-June-1862
Ganendra Mohan Tagore was the
first Indian to get the Barrister-
at-Law Degree after passing the
examination from Lincoln Inn
University.

21-June-1906
Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first
president of All India Congress,
passed away.

21-June-1930
Five hundred were hurt as police
charged Bombay mob.

21-June-1940
Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar,
politician and founder of
Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh
(RSS), passed away.

21-June-1941
Chakravorty Rajgopalachari
became the First Indian Governor
General of India.

21-June-1948
C. Rajagopalachari was appointed
the first Indian Governor General
of Indian union
(21/06/1948-25/01/1950). After
January 25, 1950, this post was
abolished.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

21-June-1988
Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in
Amritsar.

21-June-1991
P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in
as the ninth Prime Minister of
India. He reimained in this office
till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-
member ministry in the 10th
Parliament.

21-June-1994
The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of
its 39 Lok Sabha members seek
separate seats as a group.

21-June-1997
Sethi claims sixth National
billiards crown in Bangalore.

21-June-1998
India and Russia sign a $2.5-
billion deal to set up a nuclear
power station at Koodankulam in
Tamil Nadu.

21-June-1999
Leander Paes was seeded number
one in double's ranking. This was
his highest double ranking.

 

[Thakur]

Today in History
June 22

1558 The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1864 Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
1876 General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911 King George V of England crowned.
1915 Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925 France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1930 A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
1933 Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1938 Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
1940 France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1942 A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1956 The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
1970 President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973 Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1980 The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1995 Nigeria’s former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha’s military government.
Born on June 22

1757 George Vancouver, English navigator.
1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea).
1906 Billy Wilder, film director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment).
1921 Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park.
1941 Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

Today in Indian History

Events for June 22

22-June-1555
Humayun crossed the
Indus and captured
Lahore and ousted
Sikandar Suri of Delhi
throne.

22-June-1880
Nilmoni Phukan, greatest
social reformer, prolific
writer of Assam, poet,
editor, journalist and
lawyer, was born at
Dibrugarh, Assam. (22 or
30).

22-June-1897
The Chafekar brothers,
Damodar and Balkrishna,
shot British Officer Rand
in Pune. This event
played a very important
role in the revolutionary
freedom fighter.

22-June-1898
The last total Solar
Eclipse of 19th century
was seen in India.

22-June-1910
Mohommed Hussain
`Azad', great Urdu poet,
eassy writer and critic,
died.

22-June-1917
Mohy-id-Din Hajini,
famous Hindi writer and
professor, was born at
Kashmir (Hajin).

22-June-1920
Chandrasekhar Trimbak
Sarwate, cricketer (batted
in 9 Tests for India
1946-52), was born in
Sangor, Vidarbha.

22-June-1935
Vaman Viswanath Kumar,
cricketer (useful Madras
leggie who only played 2
Tests), was born in
Madras.

22-June-1940
Netaji Subhashchandra
Bose established the
'Forward Block' after
differences with Congress
leaders.

22-June-1944
British 14th army frees
Imphal, Assam.

22-June-1948
Emperor of India title was
deleted from His Majesty
the King of United
Kingdom's titles.

22-June-1955
Sadashiv Garpatrao
Shinde, cricketer (12 wkts
in 7 Tests for India), died
at the age of 31.

22-June-1959
Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas,
great politician and
journalist, passed away.

 

[Anup Tiwari]

22-June-1971
Habib Muhammad died.

22-June-1975
National Emergency was
declared and censorship
introduced.

22-June-1982
19 persons were killed
and 25 injured when an
Air India Boeing 707 from
Singapore via Madras
crashed at Bombay.

22-June-1991
M. Karunanidhi, DMK
President, resigned from
the Assembly.

22-June-1993
JPC draft report raps B.
Shankaranand and
censures Manmohan
Singh.

22-June-1993
Ordinance to amend
Consumer Act was issued;
Government doctors and
hospitals were kept out of
its ambit.

22-June-1993
The centre bans the use
of 12 pesticides.

22-June-1994
Law for the betterment of
women introduced.

22-June-1994
L. V. Prasad, father of
South Indian film
industry, died.

22-June-1995
India and International
Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) sign MOU
enabling them to visit
suspected militants and
persons in detention
centres only under
humanitarian
consideration.

22-June-1996
Saurav Ganguly scores 131
at Lord's on Test debut.

 

[Thakur]

Today in History

June 22

1377 Richard II, who is still a child, begins his reign, following the death of his grandfather, Edward III. His coronation takes place July 16.
1558 The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1864 Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
1876 General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1910 German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911 King George V of England crowned.
1915 Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925 France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1930 A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
1933 Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1938 Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
1940 France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941 Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1942 A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944 President Franklin Roosevelt signs the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1956 The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
1970 President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973 Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1980 The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1995 Nigeria’s former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha’s military government.
Born on June 22
1757 George Vancouver, English navigator.
1898 Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front).
1906 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife of Charles Lindbergh (Gifts from the Sea).
1906 Billy Wilder, film director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment).
1921 Joseph Papp, theater director and producer, founder of the New York Public Theatre and Shakespeare-in-the-Park.
1941 Ed Bradley, broadcast journalist.

 

[Rahulan Raj]

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