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Historical Event on 3/9/1989
Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 2/15/1951 | Stephen H. Smith, father and pioneer of Indian Aero Philately or air borne mail, passed away. |
| 8/15/1995 | P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme. |
| 11/16/1995 | Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras. |
| 10/16/1968 | Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene. |
| 11/13/1998 | Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali. |
| 5/28/1988 | The first Cultural Exchange Programme was signed between India and China. |
| 8/10/1942 | Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police. |
| 10/1/1953 | The first new state in India since 1949, Andhra Pradesh, is established on purely linguistic basis and formally inaugurated. This state was created by sub-dividing state of India, Madras Province and this movement was started by Shriramulu for which he had to sacrifice his life. |
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