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Historical Event on 7/9/1951

India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1990J&K Assembly dissolved.
12/30/1993Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress.
12/19/2000A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city.
3/28/1956Tirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, great Indian cricket pace-bowler (2 Tests 1982-83 little impact), was born in Madras.
6/8/1906Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932), born at Jullunder.
4/5/1990Mrs.Sheela Flather, an Indian national, becomes the first Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
4/14/1993The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.