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Historical Event on 12/9/1658
Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/3/1790 | Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta. |
| 5/9/1933 | Gandhiji announced suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement for six weeks and called on the Government to withdraw its Ordinances. |
| 12/14/1992 | Balasaheb Deora, RSS chief, kept under house arrest. National head quarters of the party in New Delhi sealed. |
| 2/20/1968 | Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay. |
| 2/19/1993 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 10/9/1993 | C. R. Rangachari, cricketer (4 Tests for India, 8 runs @ 2.66, 9 wkts @ 54.78), passed away. |
| 5/27/1997 | Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta. |
| 4/7/1997 | NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi. |
| 12/22/2000 | Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle. |
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