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Historical Event on 1/9/1994
Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/2000 | 27 'yatris' (travelers) die after militants attack a ''langar'' in a Pahalgam health resort en route to the Amarnath cave shrine. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 2/14/1996 | Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn. |
| 3/15/1969 | Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa. |
| 8/2/1922 | Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born. |
| 1/14/1994 | The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award). |
| 10/1/1997 | Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72. |
| 3/20/1993 | Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested. |
| 6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
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