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Historical Event on 9/8/1991

Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/23/1992Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
6/8/1936Akashwani Radio was later changed into All India Radio (AIR) in 1958.
11/19/1999Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus.
8/9/1909Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet, play writer, critic of literature, educationist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Savanur.
10/15/1888Gopal Ganesh Agarkar started daily newspaper 'Sudharak'.
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
4/30/1843Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar, marathi novelist and editor, was born.
1/23/1664Shahaji Raje died in an accident.