History Of 14 September | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 14 September are as follows: -

➧ 1770: Freedom of the press was recognized in Denmark.

➧ 1814: The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of America, was written by Francis Scott Key.

➧ 1833: Lord William Bentinck came to India as the first Governor General.

➧ 1901: US President William McKinley was shot and killed in America.

➧ 1923: Ram Jethmalani, the eminent philologist and former Union Law Minister, was born.

➧ 1947: The famous poet Chandra Kunwar Bartwal, known in the Kalidas form of Hindi, died.

➧ 1949: The Constituent Assembly gave Hindi the status of the official language of India.

➧ 1959: Luna-2 landed on the surface of the Moon. It was the first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon. It started the space competition in the Soviet Union and America.

➧ 1960: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed.

➧ 1971: Famous Bengali litterateur Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, who was awarded the Jnanpith Award, died.

➧ 1998: Microsoft overtakes General Electric to become the world's largest company.

➧ 2000: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed the joint sitting of both the houses of the US Senate.

➧ 2000: Microsoft launched a new version of Windows, Windows Me.

➧ 2001: US approves $40 billion to capture Osama bin Laden.

➧ 2003: A referendum was held in Estonia to join the European Union. Estonia then joined the European Union.

➧ 2007: Japan launched the first lunar satellite H-IIA from the launch center in Tanegashima.

➧ 2009: India defeated Sri Lanka by 46 runs to win the Compaq Cup of the tri-series.

➧ 2020: The central government had sought Parliament's approval to invest Rs 20,000 crore in public sector banks in the current financial year to meet regulatory requirements.

➧ 2020: India was elected as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. It is a body of the Economic and Social Council. Along with India, China and Afghanistan also contested for membership.

➧ 2020: Janata Dal (United) MP Harivansh Narayan Singh was re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Rajya Sabha.

➧ 2020: Rajesh Khullar, a 1988 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington DC. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved the appointment of Rajesh Khullar for a tenure of three years from the date of assumption of charge or till the date of his retirement (August 23, 2023).

➧ 2020: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) had approved the appointment of Sameer Kumar Khare as the new Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila. Khare is a 1989 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Assam cadre.

➧ 2020: Interior designer, Gauri Khan wrote her first book "My Life in Design", which will be published by Penguin Random House India in 2021.

➧ 2020: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, won the leadership vote of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).