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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 09/08/1790 |
Lord Edward Alanbaro, Governor General of India (1842 to 1844), was born. |
| 09/08/1887 |
Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 09/08/1897 |
Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case. |
| 09/08/1910 |
Saint Shri Gajanan Maharaj died. |
| 09/08/1911 |
Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 09/08/1933 |
Asha Bhosle (born Asha Mangeshkar), famous playback singer, was born in Sangli, Maharashtra. |
| 09/08/1947 |
There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 09/08/1951 |
The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad. |
| 09/08/1952 |
The Copyright bill was signed during the first world convention by 35 nations including India at Geneva. |
| 09/08/1953 |
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at. |
| 09/08/1960 |
Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi. |
| 09/08/1962 |
Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration. |
| 09/08/1965 |
Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division. |
| 09/08/1972 |
Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich. |
| 09/08/1982 |
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, who dominated the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir for 50 years, died. He was 77. |
| 09/08/1990 |
Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 09/08/1991 |
Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam. |
| 09/08/1993 |
Andhra cabinet reshuffled by dropping four legislators and bringing in 16 new faces. |
| 09/08/1993 |
Mandal Commission recommendation of 27\% job reservation for the backward classes brought into effect; 'Creamy' layer excluded. |
| 09/08/1995 |
Harcharan Singh Brar sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab. |
| 09/08/1997 |
English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states. |
| 09/08/2000 |
Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/26/1995 | India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan. |
| 06/09/1948 | Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar, was born. |
| 01/14/1758 | Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them. |
| 05/06/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 11/16/1986 | Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore. |
| 04/14/1891 | Dr. Bhimrao Ramji 'Babasaheb' Ambedkar, India's great social reformer, politician, author, architect, lawyer and agitator, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 03/03/1952 | The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections. |
| 04/01/2000 | Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi. |
| 05/07/1907 | Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born. |
| 03/10/1922 | Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati. |
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