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Historical Event on 8/9/1911
Khorshedji Rustomji Meher-Homji, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper 1936), was born in Bombay.
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| 11/27/1993 | Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
| 6/23/1946 | Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly. |
| 3/22/1938 | IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 1/14/1905 | Durga Khote, Marathi stage artist and actress, was born. |
| 7/4/1897 | Nanaksingh, famous Punjabi novelist, was born in a Hindu family in village Chak Hamid, Tehsil Dadan Khan, District Jhelum (now in Pakistan). |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 5/25/1995 | Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill. |
| 1/21/2000 | The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president. |
| 1/26/1927 | Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born. |
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