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Historical Event on 9/2/1960
Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/24/1996 | Indian Express launches Vizag (17th) edition. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 6/26/1906 | M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras. |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
| 10/2/1997 | At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC. |
| 12/23/1944 | U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born. |
| 1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
| 2/26/1996 | Parliament's budget session opens. |
| 2/19/1992 | A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura. |
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