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Historical Event on 8/9/1902
King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1991 | Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections. |
| 6/24/1869 | Hari Chapekar Damodar was born virtually. He was the first terrorist of India. |
| 9/14/1991 | Assam declared 'disturbed area', army launches 'Operation Rhino' against ULFA militants. |
| 1/22/1967 | Atomic Energy Center was renamed after Homi Jahangir Bhabha as 'Bhabha Atomic Research Centre' at Trombay, Mumbai. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 6/6/1947 | Gandhiji writes to Mountbatten, with Pakistan conceded, to persuade Jinnah to amicable settle all outstanding points with Congress. |
| 2/10/1806 | Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala. |
| 3/22/1793 | Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year. |
| 2/24/1936 | Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
| 7/3/1936 | Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match. |
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