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Historical Event on 1/9/1664

Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
1/17/1941Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days.
10/24/1945UNO Day.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
11/1/1937Keral University established.
3/10/1945Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born.
7/31/1988Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
12/8/1911Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.