History Of 11 September | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 11 September are as follows: -

➧ 1893: Swami Vivekananda gave a historic speech on bigotry, tolerance and the goodness of all religions at the World Conference of Religions held in Chicago, USA.

➧ 1895: Vinoba Bhave, the great freedom fighter, social activist and famous Gandhian leader, was born.

➧ 1906: Mahatma Gandhi started the Satyagraha movement in South Africa.

➧ 1919: The US Navy invaded Honduras.

➧ 1922: The Sun News-Pictorial, an illustrated daily newspaper, was started in Melbourne, Australia.

➧ 1939: Iraq and Saudi Arabia declared war on Germany.

➧ 1941: Construction of the US Defence Department Pentagon began.

➧ 1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a prominent leader of British India and president of the 'Muslim League', died.

➧ 1951: Florence Chadwick swim across the English Channel. It took them 16 hours and 19 minutes to reach France from England. She became the first woman to do so.

➧ 1961: The World Wildlife Fund was established.

➧ 1964: Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, the leading poet, critic, essayist, story writer and novelist of Hindi literature, passed away.

➧ 1968: Air France plane crashed near Nice, France. 89 passengers and six crew members were killed in the accident.

➧ 1987: Hindi poetess Mahadevi Varma passed away. Her famous compositions like as; Ateet Ke chalchitra, Mera Parivaar, Path ke Saathi, Neerja, Smriti ki Rekhaye, Agni Rekha, Nihar, Deepshikha etc.

➧ 1996: The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association elected a woman president for the first time.

➧ 2001: Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York, in which 2977 people were killed.

➧ 2003: US President George Bush met with the Dalai Lama, the religious leader of Tibet, despite opposition from China.

➧ 2005: An end to 38 years of military rule in the Gaza Strip was announced.

➧ 2007: A nearly 2000-year-old tunnel was discovered in the city of David, adjacent to Jerusalem.

➧ 2009: Nithari case accused Moninder Singh Pandher was acquitted by the Allahabad High Court in one of the 19 cases in the Rimpa Haldar case.

➧ 2018: 53 people lost their lives in a bus accident in the south Indian state of Telangana.

➧ 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a conference on 'School Education in the 21st Century' under the New Education Policy 2020. The two-day conference began on 10 September as part of the Shiksha Parv.

➧ 2020: India and China reached a five-point agreement on the border standoff between the two countries. The agreement was reached after detailed talks between Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

➧ 2020: The Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0 was launched by the Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Hardeep Singh Puri. The framework was launched during a virtual event organized by the Smart Cities Mission of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

➧ 2020: Reserve Bank of India had issued a notice on compliance functions and role of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) in banks. The compliance system requires banks to have an effective compliance culture, independent corporate compliance functions and a strong compliance risk management program at the bank and group level.