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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 |
| 5/14/1996 | H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 1/18/1932 | Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur. |
| 3/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 2/1/1785 | Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time. |
| 9/24/1992 | India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi. |
| 8/6/1999 | Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi. |
| 9/8/1911 | Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh. |
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