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Historical Event on 11/9/1980

P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
11/18/1994Bipinchandra Joshi, cheif of Army and General, passed away at the age of 54 years.
1/18/1982Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
12/3/1991Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan.
3/11/1886Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi became the first Indian lady doctor. She passed the MBBS degree from Philadelphia University of America.
4/28/1936Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.