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Historical Event on 9/1/1896
Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 11/20/1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand. |
| 6/1/1972 | Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS). |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
| 2/28/1989 | S. B. Chavan, Finance Minister, presents a Rs. 7337 crore-deficit budget for 1989-90. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 7/7/1997 | Armed Kuki militants shot dead 25 persons and injured five seriously in an attack on Paites village in Manipur. |
| 9/7/1906 | Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered. |
| 5/27/1968 | Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously. |
| 7/1/1928 | Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims. |
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