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Historical Event on 7/9/1979

Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer, 2 Tests for India as WK and 1 catch, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1929Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore.
3/30/1699Guru Govind Singh the 10th Guru of Sikh's established 'Khalsa Panth'.
10/12/1921Jayant Shridhar Tilak, great journalist, was born at Poona.
7/1/1947Sharad NandKishore Yadav was born in Babai, Distt. Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh).
10/28/1997Cabinet permits RBI to issue rupee notes of 1000 denomination.
4/23/1926Madhavrao Sapre, great political leader, passed away.
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
1/31/1903Smt. Sharda Bhaurao Diwan, educationalist, was born.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.