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Historical Event on 6/9/1752
French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/12/1998 | India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 3/22/1893 | Surya Sen, alias Masterda, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born. |
| 7/31/1990 | Charan Singh Rathi at New Delhi sets record for 20 km W. in 1.25.48\_\_. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
| 5/2/1992 | President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges. |
| 5/6/1967 | Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President. |
| 4/2/1994 | Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
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