Sangeetsurya Keshavrao Bhosle remembered on birth anniversary; key events of October 4 in history
Marathi musical theatre's Sangeetsurya Keshavrao Bhosle is remembered today, alongside notable events, births and deaths recorded on October 4.
Sangeetsurya Keshavrao Bhosle, known as a popular and gifted singer-actor of Marathi musical theatre, is remembered today on his birth anniversary. At just 18, he founded the well-known theatre company Lalitkaladarsh Natak Mandali with his brother.
Impressed by his role in Govind Ballal Deval's play Sharada and his powerful singing, journalist Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar conferred on him the honorary title "Sangeetsurya".
He won over audiences with Dhairyadhar in Sangeet Manapman, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Shahashivaji, and male and female roles in other plays. He is credited with introducing the velvet curtain to the Marathi stage and with starting the discipline of beginning a play at the appointed time. He died on October 4, 1921. He was born on August 9, 1890.
Several important events took place on October 4. In 1824, Mexico adopted a new constitution and became a republic. In 1927, Gutzon Borglum began carving the Mount Rushmore sculpture. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass. In 1943, during the Second World War, the United States captured the Solomon Islands.
In 1957, Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft circled the Moon and photographed the part of it not visible from Earth. In 1966, Basutoland became independent of the United Kingdom and the nation was renamed Lesotho.
In 1983, Richard Noble set a world record by driving his car Thrust 2 at 1,019 km/h in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. The civil war in Mozambique ended in 1992. Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks in 2006.
Those born on this date include Rutherford Hayes, the 19th President of the United States (1822); Indian historian and writer Ramchandra Shukla (1884); classical singer Saraswatibai Rane and Martial Celestin, the first Prime Minister of Haiti (both 1913); Marathi critic M. V. Dhond (1914); economist and professor Dhansukhlal Tulsidas Lakdawala (1916); American journalist and writer Alvin Toffler (1928); Marathi film and stage actor, tabla player, singer and harmonium player Arun Sarnaik (1935); English author and actress Jackie Collins (1937); and Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant (1997).
Those who died on this date include Dutch painter Rembrandt (1669); Pratapsingh Bhosle, a king of Maharashtra devoted to his subjects' welfare (1847); Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty (1904); Nobel-winning German physicist Max Planck (1947); Anant Antarkar, editor of Satyakatha (1966); Marathi poet Sopandev Chaudhari (1982); composer, singer and actor Pt. Ram Marathe (1989); actor John Cavas (1993); newspaper announcer Bhai Bhagat (2002); and Indian director and producer Edida Nageswara Rao (2015).
