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Historical Event on 1/9/1918
Harprasad Nanda, famous Industrialist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/2000 | Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''. |
| 11/24/1973 | E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94. |
| 1/17/1997 | Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas. |
| 1/19/1948 | India and Pakistan accept U.N. mediation in New York. |
| 1/22/1971 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 25/04/1973. |
| 9/23/1803 | British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye. |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
| 9/29/1981 | Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight was diverted to Lahore, Pakistan by five Khalistan activists of the Dal Khalsa International. On board there were 117 passengers out of which 66 were freed on arrival in Lahore. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 4/2/1997 | Sumita Sinha of Dhanbad, (18 years college girl) became a world record holder when a 3,200 kg Ambassador car passed over her. |
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