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Historical Event on 9/6/1903

Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
10/25/1983Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
3/15/1920Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born.
3/25/1990Lakshadweep Council elections.
4/17/1946Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away.
4/9/1954India reports only 43\% of population speaks 15 recognized languages, noting 720 dialects, 23 tribal tongues.
2/25/1995Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed.
5/9/1981Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.
11/9/1942Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died.