10 September - India on this day24 events

Satyendra Chandra Bardhan, Vakkom Abdul Khader, Fouja Singh, Boniface Pereira and Anandan were hanged on charges of conspiracy to "wage war against the King" under the Ememy Agents Ordinance (which was given retrospective effect) at Madras Jail. They sang Vande Mataram and shouted "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" when they were being hanged.

An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan.

Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born.

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji "Ranji", Maharaj Jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, was born in village Sarodar near Jamnagar, Kathiawad. He was referred as "The prince of a little state, but the king of a great game". He also played for Sussex.

Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh.

B. D. Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born.

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the "theory of estimation" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the "Cramer-Rao inequality", "The Fisher-Rao theorem" and "Rao-Black Wellistaion" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.

K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode.

Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.

Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.

Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.

Central Ethical Committee of ICMR on Human Research, constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retired) M.N. Venkatachaliah, held its first meeting. Several sub committees were constituted to address specific topics viz. Epidemiological Research, Clinical Evaluation of Products to be Used on Humans, Organ Transplantation; Human Genetics, etc.

Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states.

The Planning Commission decides to introduce the Rolling Plan concept.

Shah Jahan entered Rajputana and raided Amber crossing the Tapti. He arrived near the kingdom of Golconda and from there passed on to Orissa which was surrendered to him.

Govind Ballabh Pant was born in village Khunt, Almora District, U.P. He served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was as outstanding parliamentary figure of his days. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna in 1959.

Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.

Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.

Mangalore University established.

Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.

India and South Korea sign agreement to expand trade and investment.

87 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assume office.

Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.

All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.