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Historical Event on 9/3/1979
M. M. Bhatnagar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 14-06-1985.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 12/15/1992 | BJP Governments of Sunderlal Patwa (MP), Shanta Kumar (HP) and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (Rajasthan) dismissed. |
| 10/14/1955 | Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia . |
| 10/21/1981 | Kerala under central rule. |
| 12/13/2000 | All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 6/23/1935 | Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born. |
| 10/16/1999 | Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). |
| 2/19/1986 | Computerised railway ticket reservation system was introduced in New Delhi Railway station. |
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