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Historical Event on 7/9/1979
Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer, 2 Tests for India as WK and 1 catch, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/6/1994 | Indian Union Muslim League splits, G.M.Banatwala elected President in place of Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait. |
5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
8/21/1972 | A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction. |
11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
10/15/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour. |
9/23/1803 | British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye. |
11/20/1990 | Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order. |
4/21/1991 | Hastmalji Maharaj, Jainbhumi parampujya, passed away. |
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