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Historical Event on 6/9/1998
Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 5/25/1894 | Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 1/27/1901 | Tarkatirtha Laxmanshastri Joshi, the great thinker, master of Sanskrit and editor of Marathi Vishwakosh, was born. |
| 9/12/1995 | Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu. |
| 10/3/1957 | Republican Party of India established. |
| 6/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 1/4/1932 | Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat. |
| 1/18/1969 | Prajapita Brahma, great social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 10/28/1981 | Underground Metro Train Compartments were tested on trial basis at Calcutta. |
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