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Learn about the importance of 11th September. Significant historical events, Famous Birthdays, and Death Anniversaries on this day September 11.
11th September in the History of India
2022
- 2022 - Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati - Dwarakapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati died at the age of 99.
2019
- 2019 - Lord Meghnad Desai announced that the "Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust" will donate £100,000 as an endowment towards Mahatma Gandhi scholarships.
- 2019 - Former IAS officer PK Mishra was appointed a principal secretary to PM Narendra Modi.
- 2019 - ISRO lost contact with Vikram Lander 400 meters from the lunar surface, not 2.1 Kms.
- 2019 - Mumbai got its first metro coach manufactured by state-run Bharat Earth Movers (BEML) under the 'Make-in-India' initiative. The indigenous metro coach was built by BEML at its Bengaluru facility in 75 days. In a big boost to infrastructure in Mumbai, the government is pumping in over ₹1.2 lakh crore to build 14 metro corridors in the financial capital.
- 2019 - IAF resurrects 17 Squadron ‘Golden Arrows’ for Rafale
Before 2019
- 1965 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
- 1893 - Swami Vivekananda delivered his iconic speech at the World Religion Conference held in Chicago on 11th September 1893. A snippet of his landmark speech was: "I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true. I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted and the refugees of all religions and all nations of the earth."
- 1803 – Battle of Delhi, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
Famous Birthdays on September 11
- 1884 – Sudhamoy Pramanick, Indian activist and politician (d. 1974)
- 1895 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1982)
- 1911 – Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (d. 2000) 1976 – Murali Kartik, Indian cricketer
Death Anniversaries on September 11
- 2022 - Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati - Dwarakapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati died at the age of 99.
- 2020 - Agnivesh popularly referred to as Swami Agnivesh was an Indian social activist and a former cabinet minister in the state of Haryana. He is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front, which he founded in 1981.
- 2011 – Anjali Gupta, Indian soldier and pilot (b. 1975)
- 1987 – Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and educator (b. 1907)
- 1973 – Neem Karoli Baba, Indian philosopher and guru
- 1964 – Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Indian poet and critic (b. 1917)
- 1921 – Subramania Bharati, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (b. 1882)
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