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Historical Event on 9/1/1989
Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1907 | Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 10/4/1977 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister of India, addressed the UNO General Assembly in Hindi language. |
| 5/13/1956 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore. |
| 9/11/1893 | Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago. |
| 5/13/1998 | World Bank cancels India donors meet. |
| 1/29/1999 | Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
| 9/4/1993 | New Bank of India merged with Punjab National Bank. |
| 6/6/1922 | Gopalan Morappakam Joysam, cricketer, was born at Maduranthakan, in Tamil Nadu. He received the Padmashree in 1964. |
| 1/9/1904 | Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab . |
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