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Historical Event on 1/9/1916

Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1983Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
11/9/1904Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani
10/21/2000Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
10/1/1993Two more Election Commissioners appointed.
8/12/1897Major Gegeral Himmat Singh, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Duputy Defence Minister, was born.
12/14/2000The Government declares the 10-day old postal strike illegal as per the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act.
9/17/1999Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.
3/31/1992The new five-year Export-Import policy relaxes restrictions.
1/14/1982First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully.
6/7/1979Bhaskara-I, first experimental satellite for Earth resources/meteorology remote sensing and the Second Satellite of India, launched. This satellite carried TV and microwave cameras. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle 'Intercosmos'.