9th December – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

What Happened Today In History? 

 Find out what happened on 9th December 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 occurred 9th December.

Sonia Gandhi  is an Italian-born Indian politician and the President of the Indian National Congress, one of the major political parties of India. She is the widow of former Prime Minister of India,
Dia Mirza,   nicknamed Dee is a Indian model and actress who appears in Bollywood films. The actress along with her boyfriend Sahil Sangha and good friend Zayed Khan has started her own production house, Born Free Entertainment, their first film Love Breakups Zindagi made under the banner was released on 7 October 2011
Ragini Khanna   is an Indian television actress. She appeared in many hindi serials, initially starting with Radhaa Ki Betiyaan Kuch Kar Dikhayengi Then Bhaskar Bharti. Currently, she has played the lead role in the popular television serial Sasural Genda Phool on STAR Plus
Shatrughan Sinha   is an Indian film actor and politician. Apart from being member of Rajya Sabha twice he was also Union Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Jan 2003-May 2004) and Shipping (Aug. 2004). He was elected to 15th Lok Sabha in 2009
Dino Morea  is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films and a former model. Dino Morea was born in Bangalore, India to an Italian father and an Anglo-Indian mother. He is the second of three brothers. Nicolo Morea is his older brother, and Santino Morea is his younger brother.

Death anniversaries on 9th December :

Kota Shivaram Karanth   was a major Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the “Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence” by Ramachandra Guha
Roquia Sakhawat Hussain,  was a prolific writer and a social worker in undivided Bengal in the early 20th century. She is most famous for her efforts on behalf of gender equality and other social issues. She established the first school aimed primarily at Muslim girls
Nirala   was a Pakistani comedian and film actor of the 1960s. He only appeared in Urdu films made in Pakistan. His first film was Aur bhi gham hain (1960). His last film was Choroan Ka Badshah
Aghore Nath Gupta  was a great scholar of Buddhism and a preacher of the Brahmo Samaj. He was designated Sadhu (saint) after his premature death in recognition of his pious life. Sivanath Sastri wrote about him, “His unfeigned humility, deep spirituality and earnest devotion were a new revelation to the members of the Samaj.

Notable Events:

1484 :-  Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the ‘Sursagar’, was born in Sihi village near Delhi
1658  :-  Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India
1761 :- Maharani Tarabai of Pune, the regent of Maratha empire of India from 1700 until 1708, died at Satara. She was the queen of Chhatrapati Rajaram Bhosale and daughter-in-law of the empire’s founder Shivaji and mother of Shivaji II. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal occupation of Maratha territories after the death of her spouse, and acted as regent during the minority of her son.
 1879 :- Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.
 

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