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Historical Event on 9/7/1968
Benipuri Sharma, famous Hindi novelist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
| 2/8/1897 | Dr. Zakir Hussain, third President of India and Educationist, was born in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 5/25/1999 | India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 1/31/1941 | Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat of the Bombay Sappers showed an act of unparalleled bravery and inspiring leadership when commanding a detachment of 21 Field company of the Bombay Sappers on the road to Gondar, in Abyssinia. Hence, The Victoria Cross (VC) was bestowed upon him and he became the first Indian Commissioned Officer receipeant of The Victoria Cross (VC). |
| 9/28/1837 | Bahadur Shah-II ascended the throne and became the emperor of Delhi at the age of 62 following the death of his father Akbar Shah-II. |
| 11/28/1945 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta. |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 4/7/1997 | NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi. |
| 4/7/1997 | Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra. |
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