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Historical Event on 9/30/1996
Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1932 | The N. W. Frontier province is created. |
| 12/25/1946 | Gandhiji said, at Noakhali, ""I am being tested through and through"". |
| 6/23/1993 | Motilal Vohra made governor of UP. |
| 12/6/1756 | British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India. |
| 4/4/1912 | Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born. |
| 8/16/1958 | Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival. |
| 8/16/1958 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
| 3/1/1924 | Naresh Mehta was born. |
| 6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
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