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Historical Event on 7/9/1969

Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer), was born in Hyderabad.

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6/6/1890Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, was born.
12/10/1993The residence of Mahatma Phule was declared a national monument.
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
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6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
6/22/1994L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died.
1/1/1966Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away.
4/28/1740Baji Rao I aka Thorle BajiRao Peshwa passed away at Raverkhedi near the banks of the Narmada river near Khargon and his son Balaji Baji Rao was placed on his father's throne as the Peshwa.
6/18/1966California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else.
1/2/1994Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.