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Historical Event on 9/1/1989
Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1971 | Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam. |
| 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. |
| 8/13/1963 | Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73. |
| 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. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 6/10/1900 | Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
| 2/26/1946 | Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born. |
| 5/11/1987 | President's rule imposed in Punjab. |
| 7/2/1970 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, passed away. |
| 11/10/1990 | Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta. |
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