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Historical Event on 10/9/1931
Air Force was established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/20/1938 | Bhartacharya Chintamanrao Vinayak Vaidya, omnicient research scientist and expert of Marathi and English languages, passed away. |
| 1/22/1858 | Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 3/20/1997 | Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra. |
| 9/11/1893 | Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago. |
| 5/2/1998 | The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas. |
| 1/25/1917 | Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
| 9/29/1971 | Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
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