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Historical Event on 3/9/1990
Darbara Singh, former Punjab Chief Minister, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
6/19/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party. |
9/10/1966 | Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states. |
1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
12/14/1946 | Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi. |
9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
1/29/1979 | Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras. |
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