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Historical Event on 9/4/1825
Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 12/28/2000 | India, Israel deal on Phalcon AWACS planes put on hold, pending change of guard in the U.S. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 1/9/1998 | Three RJD ministers in the Gujral Cabinet - Mr. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Capt. Jai Narayan Nishad and Mrs. Kanti Singh - resign. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
| 7/12/1993 | West Bengal Governor Dr. Nurul Hasan, 72, died. |
| 1/19/1997 | Air India triumphs in the National Women's Cricket championship in Calcutta. |
| 3/11/1963 | Mahomed Nissar, 6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts @ 28.28, passed away. |
| 2/21/1991 | Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years. |
| 5/27/1930 | India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured. |
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