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Historical Event on 9/1/1668
Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1914 | Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born. |
| 1/26/1992 | Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's, passed away at the age of 71 years. |
| 2/9/1993 | Silver prices crash as the govt allows passengers to import upto 100 k and reduces customs duty on 35 baggage items from 255 to 150 \%. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
| 1/29/1976 | Parliamenentary Committee on official language constituted. The Committee has since then submitted six parts of its report and Presidential orders have been issued on first five parts of it. The sixth part is in print. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/8/1967 | Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/18/1634 | Joannes Camphuys, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1684-91), was born. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 3/6/1971 | Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain. |
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