20th Oct – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 20th of October in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occur 20th of October

Virender Sehwag  (born 20 October 1978), affectionately known as Viru and the Nawab of Najafgarh, also called the Zen master of modern cricket, or the Viv Richards of this era by columnists, is one of the leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-handed opening batsman and a part-time right-arm off-spin bowler.

Navjot Singh Sidhu born 20 October 1963) is former Indian cricketer. After retirement from cricket Navjot Singh Sidhu took up television commentary, and politics. He was later forced to resign from his political position because he was convicted of homicide, but he won his seat back once he was cleared of the charges.

Richard Rishi (born 20 October 1977), popularly known as Rishi, is a prominent Indian film actor who appeared in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films. He started his career as a child artist in famous movies like Mani Rathnam’s Anjali and Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari along with his sisters Shamili and Shalini. He started back in mainstream cinema as a hero in Kathir’s Kadhal Virus.

Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan (born 20 October 1923) is an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of the state of Kerala. He had been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 1985, and until July 2009, when he was reverted to the Central Committee of the party owing to his ideological dispositions.

Siddhartha Shankar Ray  (20 October 1920 – 6 November 2010) was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was a prominent barrister, Punjab Governor and Education minister of India. He was also the ambassador of India to the United States of America and served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1972 to 1977.

Death Anniversaries on 20th of October

C Sridhar (22 July 1933 – 20 October 2008) was a South Indian screenwriter and film director. Sridhar hailed from Chitthamur, a village near Madurantakam, Tamil Nadu. He studied at St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School (Chengalpattu), where he began writing and staging plays while he was in Grade 7. He entered films as a dialogue writer when his play Ratha Pasam was adapted as a film.

Biraja Sankar Guha  (15 August 1894 – 20 October 1961) was an Indian physical anthropologist, who classified Indian people into races around the early part of the 20th century. He was the first Director of the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) (1945–1954). B. S. Guha did his graduation in philosophy from the Scottish Church College and earned his post-graduate

Parthasarathy Harishchandra Sharma (5 January 1948 – 20 October 2010) was an Indian cricketer. Sharma was born in Alwar, Rajasthan. He played in 5 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1974 to 1977.

Titus I Mar Thoma was known as Thithoos Mar Thoma Metropolitan (Thithoos is Aramaic and Malayalam) among his people and was the fifteenth Mar Thoma (1893–1909). He was a saintly and missionary bishop of the church. His time was a period of renovation and reformation of the Malankara Church.

Notable Event 

20-October-1752 The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the ‘Raja’ with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the ‘Mumar Bahadur’ with the title of Rajendra.

20-October-1774 New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.

20-October-1960 Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills.

20-October-1969 Punjabrao Agriculture University established.

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