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Historical Event on 1/9/1841
John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1955 | India and Vietnam affirm the Panchsheel. |
| 11/3/1984 | Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. |
| 6/11/1931 | Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born. |
| 8/22/1922 | Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces. |
| 4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
| 8/5/1905 | Subhadrakumari Chauvhan, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 9/6/2000 | Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1. |
| 5/8/1954 | Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French. |
| 10/24/1933 | Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals. |
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