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Historical Event on 8/9/1969
Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1993 | Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria. |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 10/18/1992 | Zimbabwe's first Test match vs India at Harare. |
| 3/22/1963 | World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways. |
| 9/24/1998 | In his address to the UN General Assembly, PM Vajpayee said that India wouldl not come in the way of implementing CTBT and may sign it conditionally by September 1999. |
| 10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
| 5/13/1991 | P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 11/7/1907 | Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra. |
| 3/18/1996 | President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces. |
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