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Historical Event on 2/9/1985
Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1985 | Muhammad of Bin Quasim (Kasim), Arabs, attacked on Sindh and captured it. Muhammad defeated and killed King Dahir, Hindu king, at Rawar. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 12/28/1926 | Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service. |
| 6/17/1928 | Pandit Gop Bandhu Das, famous writer, social worker and the creator of Orissa, passed away. |
| 4/4/1910 | Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga. |
| 4/22/2000 | Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 7/2/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement on promoting agricultural research in New Delhi. |
| 9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
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