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Historical Event on 8/9/1970

Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.

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4/26/1995SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA).
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5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
11/29/1926Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
12/31/1984Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
11/29/1798Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France.
1/4/1967Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
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