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Historical Event on 2/9/1951
The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1997 | E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican. |
| 9/29/2000 | Union Minister of State for Agriculture S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao quits the from Cabinet. |
| 10/18/1980 | The first Himalayan Car Rally of 5,377.9 km was started from Brabourne Stadium, Bombay with 74 starters. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 8/30/1908 | Ganpatrao Tapase, senior freedom fighter and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, was born. |
| 1/26/1988 | A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89). |
| 2/14/1628 | 5th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned. |
| 4/18/1930 | Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army. |
| 6/16/1920 | Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born. |
| 8/28/1879 | Battle at Ulundi, Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz. |
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