Today Importance - 24th-september
24 September 1629
Jacques Spex was appointed Governor General of the Dutch-Indies.
24 September 1674
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was enthroned for the second time in 'Tantric style'.
24 September 1726
King George granted the Company the right to set up municipal corporations and mayor's courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
24 September 1777
Birth of Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Thanjavur.
24-Sep-1815
Indian Warrior (Official/Rep-TN) John Sevier dies at 70.
24-Sep-1829
Anandaram Dhekial Phukan, the father of modern Assamese poetry and essays, was born.
24 September 1856
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Lahore and Governor General of India, died.
24 September 1859
Nana Sahib alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of the Sepoy Mutiny, has died in Nepal.
24 September 1861
Madam Vikaji Rustam Kama, Mother of Indian Revolution was born in Bombay. From his childhood, he became interested in social and political work.
24 September 1873
Mahatma Jyotirao laid out the 'Satyashodaka Samaj' at Phule.
24 September 1914
Birth of Janardhana Swami.
24 September 1921
Researcher and critic Dr Sakharam Gangadhar was born in Malsh.
24 September 1922
Social activist and politician Jugal Mandal was born in Howrah.
24 September 1931
19 people were killed in police firing in anti-Hindu riots in Kashmir.
24 September 1932
The 'Puna Agreement' was endorsed between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. This historic treaty increased the representation of untouchables. Gandhi also ended his fast with this.
24 September 1932
Pritilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for the "Chittagong Ammunition Conspiracy".
24 September 1934
Right-handed batsman Arvind Laxman Apte was born in Mumbai.
24 September 1936
It is reported that over 2 million people from India's Dalit community have left Hinduism for Christianity in the last two weeks.
24 September 1938
Pilu Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 Tests from 1984-87, born in Mumbai. He is India's V.K. Along with Ramaswamy, he was the first Test umpire to be invited abroad.
24 September 1947
Pakistani attackers attacked Kashmir.
24 September 1992
Five selected regional TV channels are nationalized directly linked to INSAT.
24 September 1992
India's Leander Paes defeated Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup match in New Delhi.
24 September 1992
The Karnataka High Court stayed the government order allowing the opening of nine private engineering colleges.
24 September 1992
The Union Labor Minister announced a new export-oriented immigration policy to replace the regulator.
24 September 1994
Pneumonic plague has killed at least 100 people in the western city of Surat.
24 September 1995
The name of Kanpur University was changed to Chhatrapati Shahu University.
24 September 1997
Prime Minister I.K. Gujrat, while addressing the UN General Assembly, presented India's demand for a UN Security Council seat.
24 September 1997
Former Chief Justice of India E.S. Venkata Ramaiah (72) died in Bengaluru.
24 September 1997
Prime Minister I.K. Gujrat formalized India's demand for permanent membership of the Security Council at the UN General Assembly meeting.
24 September 1998
In his address to the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Vajpayee said that India would not stand in the way of implementing the CTBT and could sign it conditionally by September 1999.
24-Sep-1999
Chief Controller of Defense Accounts (Pension) renamed as Principal Defense Accounts (Pension), Allahabad.
24-Sep-1999
India's Krishnan Sashikaran and China's Wang Yu won the boys and girls titles respectively at the Asian Junior Chess Championship in Vung Tau, Vietnam.