Setu Madhavrao Pagdi remembered on death anniversary; key events recorded on October 14
Maharashtra historian and administrator Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, who died in 1994, is remembered today, along with births, deaths and events recorded on October 14.
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Today is the death anniversary of Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, a noted Maharashtra historian, a writer known for deep study, and an administrative officer. He carried out deep research on Maratha history and the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and wrote several important books. He died in 1994. He was born on August 27, 1910.
Besides Marathi, he had a command of English, Urdu and Persian. This allowed him to study historical documents closely and present fact-based history. He made a valuable contribution in the social and cultural fields during the Hyderabad liberation struggle and in his administrative service. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan for his service to literature and history. His fact-based approach to historical research is regarded as a guide for today's researchers and readers.
Several events are recorded in the history of the country and the world on October 14. In 1882, Punjab University was founded in India, in what is now West Pakistan. In 1920, Oxford University admitted women to degree courses. In the same year, Finland and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging certain territories. In 1926, A.A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh was published. In 1933, Germany withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference.
In 1947, pilot Chuck Yeager made the first successful supersonic flight, faster than the speed of sound, in the X-1 aircraft. In 1968, American astronauts aboard Apollo 7 made the first live television broadcast from orbit. In 1981, Vice President Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt. In 1982, US President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. In 1998, the noted economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Among those born on this date are Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I in 1643, King Ferdinand VII of Spain in 1784, and Eamon de Valera, the first President of the Republic of Ireland, in 1882. Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th US President, was born in 1890, Jnanpith-winning Assamese writer Virendra Kumar Bhattacharya in 1924, and English actor Roger Moore, known for his James Bond roles, in 1927. Maihar gharana sitar player Nikhil Banerjee was born in 1931, writer Subhash Bhende in 1936, and Ralph Lauren, founder of Ralph Lauren Corporation, in 1939. Singer-songwriter and actor Cliff Richard was born in 1940, Param Vir Chakra recipient Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal in 1950, Etawah gharana sitar player Ustad Shahid Parvez in 1958, and cricketer Gautam Gambhir in 1981.
The list of deaths includes German industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens in 1919, German field marshal Erwin Rommel in 1944, and the writer Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar in 1947. In 1953, R. D. Karve, a thinker who worked on family planning and sex education, died. Walchand group chairman Lalchand Hirachand Doshi died in 1993, American novelist Harold Robbins in 1997, and Tanzania's first President Julius Nyerere in 1999. Dattopant Thengadi, founder of the Swadeshi Jagran Manch and the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, died in 2004, Union minister and social worker Mohan Dharia in 2013, and Indian Navy chief Radhakrishna Harikrishan Tahiliani in 2015.
