Today Importance - 20th September
20-September-1388
Firoz Shah Tughlaq, the third emperor of Delhi, died at the age of 83.
20-September-1398
Amir Taimur of Tamerlane invaded India with 92 horses and 90,000 horsemen and reached the banks of the Indus near the city of Attari (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim sultanate was very tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was the most cruel of all the conquerors. On 24 September 1398, Timur crossed the Indus River at Ait (now in Pakistan).
20-September-1819
Goa's revolutionary scientist Jose Custodio Faria passes away.
20-September-1856
Narayana Guru was born in Chempajanti village in Kerala. Sree Narayana Guru was a social reformer who led the reform movement in Kerala, rejecting caste and promoting new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He stressed the need for spiritual and social upliftment of the poor through their own efforts by establishing temples and educational institutions. In the process, he condemned the superstitions that had tarnished the basic Hindu cultural traditions of caste.
20-September-1857
British troops captured Delhi from the rebels.
20-September-1878
"The Hindu", an English weekly from Madras, edited by GS Iyer, was published for the first time with only 80 copies.
20-September-1881
The famous Marathi writer Pandit Kashinath Babaji (Chandrakant Bhring) was born in Munjwad, Nashik.
20-September-1886
Kuldhar Chaliha, one of the leading Congress leaders of Assam, was born in Sibsagar.
20-September-1911
Freedom fighter, social reformer and leader Shri Ram Sharma Acharya was born in Avalkheda, Agra.
20-September-1921
Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-handed batsman (164 runs in five Test matches vs Pakistan in 1954–55), born in Karachi.
20-September-1928
Narayana Guru "Nanu" of Kerala entered Mahasamadhi. His teachings are highly respected even today.
20-September-1932
To ensure the abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables, Gandhiji began a "fast unto death" in Poona jail.
20-September-1933
India's legendary freedom fighter Annie Besant passed away.
20-September-1940
Journalist and printing director Saroj Lalwani is born.
20-September-1942
A girl named Kanak Lata Barua, with the help of 500 people, tried to hoist the national flag at Gaupur police station in Assam, but was shot by the station in-charge.
20-September-1944
Test batsman (India vs England 1967) Rameshchandra Saxena was born in Delhi.
20-September-1989
IPKF suspended its operations against LTTE in Sri Lanka. In return, the LTTE ceased all operations against the Indian armed forces.
20-September-1992
Painter and sculptor Bitthal Badgelwar passed away.
20-September-1993
The first developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be set to class.
20-September-1993
Prime Minister Narasimha Rao reached Tehran on a three-day visit.
20-September-1996
Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigned and formed a new party, Arunachal Congress.
20-September-1997
President K.R. Narayanan inaugurated the first Dr. Ambedkar Regulation College in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
20-September-1998
India lost the fifth and last match of the Sahara Cup by five wickets. Pakistan won the series 4-1 in Toronto.
20-September-1998
AB Vardhan was again elected General Secretary of CPI.
20-September-1999
Shobha Subramaniam, managing director of Anand Bazaar Patrika Publishing Group, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999–2000.
20-September-1999
TR Rajkumari (78), who was the dream girl of the Tamil silver screen for more than two decades, has passed away.
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