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Historical Event on 9/9/1997

G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/7/1990Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78.
7/9/1979Janardhan Gnanoba Navle, cricketer, 2 Tests for India as WK and 1 catch, passed away.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
2/11/1818Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas.
2/11/1818Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
6/30/1966Judge K. Subba Rao became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 11/04/1967.
4/19/1950Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
6/2/1756Fort William, the English stronghold in Bengal, was surrendered to Siraj-ud-Daulah.
12/4/1982Asian Games at Delhi concluded.