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Historical Event on 8/9/1970
Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1970 | Babur declared battle against Rana Sangram Singh. |
| 9/30/1996 | Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 2/12/1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers. |
| 5/6/1946 | Bhulabhai Desai, great politician, passed away. |
| 6/2/1988 | Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away. |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 2/15/1997 | Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi. |
| 10/23/1996 | Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
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