Today’s Motto: ‘A leader removes hurdles from his path instead of diverting or dropping journey’

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904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty in China, after seizing control of the imperial government.

1711 – French troops  capture Rio de Janeiro,

1735 – Robert Walpole became the first British “Prime Minister” (actually called as  Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street.

1789 – Battle of Rymnik; Alexander Suvorov’s Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire armies,

1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard

1857 – Delhi falls to the British troops defeating freedom fighters under Bahadur Shah Zafar and others.

1919 – The Steel Strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States

1941 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.(Feature photo credit-Posterr-for Dominican Church, Vinnytsia)

1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation

1980 – Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.

1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time

2012 –  In Libya, diplomatic missions attacked: Demanding the disbandment of armed groups, hundreds of demonstrators attack Ansar al-Sharia and Islamist militia compounds in Benghazi, Libya. Eleven people die in the clashes.

Born:

1211 – Ibn Khallikan, Iraqi scholar and judge (d. 1282)

1791 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic field (d. 1867)

1948 – Bonnie Hunt, rock star, also performed important shows including at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles in 2019. (Photo credit –  Richard Shotwell/AP)

1962 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sports broadcaster (died in 2016)

Deaths: 

1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, Sikh religious leader, founded Sikhism sect. His sermons were compiled by second Guru Arjun Dev in Guru Granth Saheb. (b. 1469)

1970 – Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi writer and poet,

1991 – Durga Khote – Veteran cine actress played very famous roles in Marathi, Hindi cinema like Ayodhyecha Raja ( in 1932), Mughl-e Azam 1960), Mirza Ghalib (1954) and Bidai (1974)

2002 – William Rosenberg, entrepreneur, industrialist of America

2011 – MAK Pataudi,  famous India cricketer and became youngest captain at 21. He was a prolific batsman and medium pacer; lost his right eye in a car accident yet he continued playing cricket. He married cine actress Sharmila Tagore.

2015 – Yogi Berra, follower of Indian Guru Mahesh Yogi,  Was an American baseball player, coach,

and manager (b. 1925)

{Data compiled by NewsOnRadar.com team)