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Historical Event on 8/9/1788
Gulam Kadir removed the eyes of Shah Alam 2nd, King of Delhi with a knife.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1861 | Parafulla Chandra Ray, chemical expert and great patriot, was born in the village of Raruli-Katipara IN Jessore district. |
| 10/6/1949 | Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune. |
| 12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
| 3/17/1991 | The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91). |
| 2/13/1945 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 5/15/1992 | BSE closed. |
| 8/10/1855 | Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born. |
| 1/30/1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting. |
| 7/19/1925 | Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P). |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
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