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Historical Event on 8/9/1971

Vinodnand Jha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected to become the first President of India and 'Jana Gana Mana....' was accepted as the National Anthem of the country.
8/21/1990Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha .
9/16/1997Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
4/9/1954India reports only 43\% of population speaks 15 recognized languages, noting 720 dialects, 23 tribal tongues.
1/19/1951Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away.
1/10/1908Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.
11/2/1774Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.