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Historical Event on 9/9/1997

Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/9/1997Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
12/26/1991Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India.
8/8/1912Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born.
4/2/1942Congress rejected the proposal of Sir Stepherd Crips.
1/20/1988Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
1/26/1988A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.
11/24/1973E. V. Ramasami Naicker (EVR), founder leader of Dravida Kazhagam, passed away at the age of 94.