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Historical Event on 9/2/1976

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/27/1931Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
5/28/1907Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
4/16/1930Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000.
1/24/1957Kagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian black and white cinemascope film, was made.
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
10/22/1933Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva.
11/27/1888Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda.
5/13/1857Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP.