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Historical Event on 10/9/1996

PVN Rao granted anticipatory bail in St. Kitts forgery case till Oct. 14.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1996Alauddin Khilji captured Chittorhgarh after defeating Rana Bhim Singh. Before the capture, Padmini, the beautiful queen along with several hundred females, had sacrificed herself in fire (Jouhar Pratha). This whole battle was fought due to Padmini.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
8/15/1993Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
11/10/1968Tukdoji Maharaj, modern social reformer, saint and poet, died in his ashram at Mozri in district Amravati.
5/17/1865Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born.
7/5/1857Baigum Hazrat Mahal again attack on Lucknow.
6/18/1896Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras.
10/25/1983Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices.