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Historical Event on 8/9/1952

New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1988Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
5/11/1885Krishnamohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist of Bengal, passed away.
7/11/1957Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League.
2/19/1670Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the great Maratha, was born.
4/9/1783Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
10/30/1928Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai.
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
9/13/1906Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh).