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Historical Event on 10/9/1963
Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1968 | Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen and others performed the first ever heart transplantion in Asia. The operation was performed by the Indian surgeons at K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay. |
| 8/20/1991 | Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras. |
| 12/7/1979 | First International Children's Films Festival was held in Bombay. |
| 2/21/1997 | J. M. Lyngdoh appointed Election Commissioner. |
| 2/21/1997 | Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 6/29/1966 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died. |
| 4/12/1917 | Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar. |
| 3/25/1927 | Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 4/16/1997 | G. Kishenchand, former Indian Test cricketer, died. |
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