On This Day
11 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1827 Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra, was born. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and for his efforts in educating women and oppressed caste people.
- 1869 Kasturbai Gandhi, political activist, was born. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1883. With her husband and son, she was involved in the Indian independence movement in British India. She was, to a great extent, influenced by her husband.
- 1977 Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu', most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era, died. He is the author of Maila Anchal, which after Premchand's Godaan, is regarded as the most significant Hindi novel.
- 2009 Vishnu Prabhakar, Hindi writer, died. He had several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism, nationalism and messages of social upliftment. He was the First Sahitya Academy Award winner from Haryana.
- 2016 India launched its Unified Payment Interface (UPI), an electronic payments network. It is regulated by the Reserve Bank of India and works by instantly transferring funds between two bank accounts on a mobile platform.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann, ex-Nazi who was one of the main organizers of the Holocaust, began.
- 1979 Uganda's dictator Idi Amin was overthrown. The despot's 8-year rule was characterized by extensive human rights abuse and repression. According to estimates, hundreds of thousands were killed as a result of his actions.
- 2007 Science-fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at age 84.
- ⭐ Significance
- National Safe Motherhood Day is celebrated to raise awareness about adequate access to care during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal services. The government of India had declared this day, the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi, as National Safe Motherhood Day in 2003.
- National Pet Day celebrates the joy that pets bring into peoples lives and encourages people to help reduce the number of animals in shelters. The day is celebrated on April 11 every year in the USA.
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