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Historical Event on 1/9/1996
PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 10/24/1933 | Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals. |
| 9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
| 5/9/1997 | Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 4/22/1991 | IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
| 11/3/1908 | Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 11/3/1908 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
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