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8 September

🇮🇳 In India

1320 Ghazi Malik (Gaiasudin Tughlaq) became the Sultan of Delhi.

1897 Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case by the British Government and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

1926 Bhupendra Hazarika, playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet and filmmaker from Assam, was born.

1960 Feroze Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha and Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's husband, died in New Delhi.

1962 Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the McMahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first occasion of Chinese infiltration.

1993 Mandal Commission recommendation of 27% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded.

🌎 Elsewhere

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time".

1945 The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

1966 Sci-fi TV series Star Trek premiered on television.

1966 UNESCO celebrated World Literacy Day for the first time by the United Nations Department of Education and Cultural.

⭐ Significance

International Literacy Day, which began as an initiative to remind the common people about the importance of literacy to ensure dignity and human rights, is an international observance, celebrated each year on 8 September, that was declared by UNESCO on 26 October 1966 at the 14th session of UNESCO's General Conference. It was celebrated for the first time in 1967.

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