There’s more to 9/11 than the collapse of the Twin Towers and the beginning of the ‘war against terror.’ Here’s a list of all that has happened on this day.
2001 The Al-Qaeda hijacks four passenger airlines; two crash into the World Trade Centre; the third crashes into the Pentagon; while passengers and crew on the fourth wrest control of their plane, it crashes into a field. Nearly 3,000 people are killed.
2000 Delhi HC exonerates former Union Minister HKL Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi. Rioters had gone on a rampage killing innocent Sikhs following the assassination of PM Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Congress leaders were suspected of inciting the mobs.
1993 Former Andhra CM NT Rama Rao, 71, weds college lecturer, Lakshmi Sivaparvathi, 44. The two met while she was researching on the biography of the leader.
1956 PM Jawaharlal Nehru announces the conclusions of the Netaji Inquiry Committee in the Lok Sabha that says that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose did die in an air-crash. The controversy, however, continues.
1948 Mohammad Ali Jinnah dies. The first leader to propagate the idea of a separate state for Muslims, he launched the Direct Action campaign of strikes and protests to achieve “Pakistan”. Known as Quaid-e-Azam in the country, his birth and death anniversaries are national holidays.
1911 Fiery all-rounder Lala Amarnath is born at Lahore in Pakistan. As Independent India’s first captain to tour Australia in 1947, he won praise from the legendary Don Bradman. His abrasive nature and penchant for taking the authorities on, say cricket experts, rubbed off on his son Mohinder.
1906 At a historic meeting, 3,000 thousand Indians led by Mahatma Gandhi gather at the Empire Theater in Johannesburg, South Africa, to voice their outrage against discrimination. Satyagraha is born, heralding the beginning of a century of non-violent struggle.
1895 Vinayak Narahari Bhave, later known as Gandhiji’s spiritual successor, is born at Gagode village in Maharashtra. His Sarvodaya Movement triggered off a Bhoodan mission that called for donations of land to be redistributed among the landless.