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Historical Event on 3/9/1966
India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
| 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). |
| 10/18/1995 | Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor, died. |
| 1/1/1999 | George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial. |
| 1/8/2000 | The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain. |
| 3/3/1989 | Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant. |
| 2/3/1929 | The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"". |
| 6/16/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi. |
| 5/9/1933 | Gandhiji announced suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement for six weeks and called on the Government to withdraw its Ordinances. |
| 9/7/1965 | U.S. suspends military aid to India and Pakistan. |
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