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Historical Event on 1/9/1946
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1924 | Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 2/13/1922 | The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence. |
| 4/1/1912 | The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation. |
| 1/30/1996 | Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe. |
| 6/3/1890 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 2/4/1993 | D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away. |
| 3/12/1967 | Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections. |
| 4/11/1993 | Tamil Nadu and Karnataka decide to form a joint task force to nab Veerappan and announces a reward of Rs. 40 lakh for his capture. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
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