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Historical Event on 1/9/1996
PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 3/11/1997 | Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists. |
| 7/18/1992 | Kanandevi, famous Bengali actress, passed away. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 4/5/1848 | Satara kingdom came to end. |
| 3/1/1990 | JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM. |
| 10/30/1947 | The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan. |
| 10/13/1999 | Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka |
| 11/6/1962 | National Defence Council established. |
| 3/22/1997 | Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala. |
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