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Historical Event on 1/9/1971
Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1992 | V. Prabhakaran, LTTE supremo, heads the list of 41 accused in the SIT chargesheet. |
| 12/6/1892 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai. |
| 5/13/2000 | The Union Government gives its approval for the creation of the three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh to be carved out of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 3/2/1949 | Sarojini Naidu, ""Nightingale of India"", freedom fighter, social worker and patriot, passed away when she was the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931. |
| 11/16/1958 | India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow. |
| 1/1/1909 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/12/1996 | Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends. |
| 8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
| 8/16/1980 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India. |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
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