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Historical Event on 10/9/1994

Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1982Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died.
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
4/12/1801Ranjit Singh proclaimed himself Maharaja of Punjab.
12/15/195760 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.
6/15/1949Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
3/2/1930Gandhiji addresses letter to Viceroy intimating his intention to break Salt Law if Congress demands are not conceded.
4/14/1941Julie Christie, actress (Dr Zhivago), was born in Assam, India.
5/24/1990K. S. Hegde, former President of Parliament, passed away.