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Historical Event on 9/8/1991
Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
| 4/23/1858 | Pandita Ramabai, social reformer and philosopher, was born in the State of Mysore. |
| 4/21/1946 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971). |
| 8/18/1997 | Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched. |
| 5/7/2000 | Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 1/11/1958 | Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 2/24/2000 | The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise. |
| 1/9/1915 | Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11. |
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