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Historical Event on 3/9/1997
Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 4/6/2000 | The Government permits use of LPG as auto fuel. |
| 2/19/1992 | Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away. |
| 10/31/1895 | Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 5/13/1791 | Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera. |
| 10/16/1971 | David Jude Johnson, cricketer (Karnataka fast bowler, India 1996), was born in Arasikere. |
| 10/9/1968 | Olympic Games open in Mexico City. |
| 7/19/1952 | India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day. |
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