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Historical Event on 9/2/1894
Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 9/21/1912 | Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 8/8/1905 | Dhyanchand, great Hockey player, was born. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory. |
| 5/11/1998 | Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
| 4/15/1919 | Arjan Singh, Air Chief Marshal and Padma Vibhushan, DFC, was born in Lyalpur. |
| 6/21/1940 | Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), passed away. |
| 9/30/1922 | Bakhshish Singh Nijjar, great historian and author, was born at Domeli village (Punjab). |
| 8/3/1930 | Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur. |
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