8th Sep – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 8th of September 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 8th of September

Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle’s career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies.

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika  (1926–2011) was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam.. His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood; and have been translated and sung in many languages.

Indraneil Sengupta is an Indian model and actor, born in Assam and schooled and raised in Ahmedabad, India. He was a finalist in the 1999 Gladrags Manhunt Contest. In 2000, he moved to Mumbai to pursue modeling and modeled for designers like Rohit Bal and worked for choreographers like Marc Robinson and Achala Sachdev.

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Bion has been twinned with Jacques Lacan as “inspired bizarre analysts…who demand not that their patients get better but that they pursue Truth”.

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy  September 8, 1892 – December 5, 1963, Beirut) was a Pakistani left-wing statesman of Bengali origin, and one of the principal Founding Fathers of modern-day Pakistan. Appointed as the fifth Prime minister of Pakistan in 1956, Suhrawardy headed Pakistan until 1957.

Death Anniversaries on 8th of September

Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He had served as India’s Union Law Minister and as chairman of the Bar Council of India. He has represented a sweep of cases from the high-profile to the controversial for which he has often faced severe criticism. He was the highest paid lawyer in the supreme court of India.

Feroze Jehangir Gandhi or Feroze Gandhy  12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960) was an Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers from Lucknow. He became a member of the provincial parliament (1950–1952), and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of India’s parliament.

Murali May 19, 1964 – September 8, 2010) was a Tamil film actor who appeared in the leading and supporting roles throughout his career. Murali has acted with many stars including Vijaykanth, Prabhu, Sathyaraj, Karthik, Prabhu Deva, Surya, Parthiban, Sarath Kumar, Mammootty and Sivaji Ganesan. In the 1990s,

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya.

Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Sher-e-Kashmir (the Lion of Kashmir) (December 5, 1905, Soura, Kashmir – September 8, 1982, Srinagar), was the leader of the National Conference, Kashmir’s largest political party, and one of the most important political figures in the modern history of Jammu and Kashmir.

Swami Abhedananda (2 October 1866 – 8 September 1939), born Kaliprasad Chandra was a direct disciple of the 19th-century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta Math. Swami Vivekananda sent him to the West to head the Vedanta Society,

Notable Moments:

8-September-1951 The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad.

8-September-1947 There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.

8-September-1887 Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli.

8-September-1897 Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case

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