Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary, who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was to be retaliation for the death of an Indian nationalist. He later took part in a largely symbolic bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and a hunger strike in jail, which—on the back of sympathetic coverage in Indian-owned newspapers—turned him into a household name in the Punjab region, and after his execution at age 23 into a martyr and folk hero in Northern India. Borrowing ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism, the charismatic Singh electrified a growing militancy in India in the 1930s, and prompted urgent introspection within the Indian National Congress's nonviolent but eventually successful campaign for India's independence.

28 September 1907

Born on the same birth date (28 September 1907): Heikki Savolainen (gymnast)

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Born in the same month (September 1907): Ben Oakland • Bep van Klaveren • Bernard Miles • Bill Wentworth • Dorothy Hill • Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza • Fay Wray • George W. Jenkins • Gil Puyat • Heikki Savolainen (gymnast) • Hermann Schlichting • Leon Askin • Lewis F. Powell Jr. • Loren Eiseley • Louis MacNeice • Pertev Naili Boratav • Philip Fotheringham-Parker • Reggie Nalder • Shug Fisher • Tiny Bradshaw