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Historical Event on 7/9/1993

Passport fees raised from Rs. 60 to Rs.300.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/1993Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
2/6/1939Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III of Baroda, great nationalist and social reformer, passed away.
5/23/1996In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls.
10/15/1946Muslim League decides to participate in the Interim Government.
3/19/1944Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'.
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.