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Historical Event on 1/9/1946
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/13/1947 | Diplomatic relations between India and Russia established. |
| 3/25/1898 | Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away. |
| 3/21/1979 | The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988). |
| 5/30/1826 | The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla. |
| 5/2/1996 | General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 1/23/1909 | New direct 7,000-mile telegraphic link with India is hailed as a great achievement at London. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 7/5/1947 | Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July. |
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