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Historical Event on 8/9/1992

Golden jubilee celebrations of the Quit India Movement begin in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
8/17/1986In the Jehovah's Witnesses' case, the Supreme Court rules that ""singing National Anthem is not obligatory"".
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
6/26/1888Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born.
7/14/1946India grants Siam a 20 year, 3 mil. credit to increase export of Siamese rice.
9/9/1920Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language.
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
1/29/1997Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement.
8/15/1947Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the new boundaries of West Punjab, East Punjab, West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam.
9/2/1976Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.