December 26, 2020 was the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Udham Singh.
- He was known for avenging the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.
- In 1940, Singh shot and killed Michael O’Dwyer, the colonial official considered responsible for Jallianwala Bagh, where over 1,000 men, women and children lost their lives, and more than were 1,200 wounded.
- Udham Singh was born in Sunam in Punjab’s Sangrur district in 1899.
- He was a political activist who got associated with the Ghadar Party while in the US.
- He was sentenced to death and was hanged on July 31, 1940 at Pentonville Prison.
- In 1974, his remains were sent back to India and he was cremated in his village in Sunam.
