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Historical Event on 9/8/1897

Lokmanya Tilak charged in anti-national activity case.

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12/22/1945Shridhar Balkrishna Kulkarni (Pathe Bapurao), famous poet known for instant poetry and Marathi folk song writer, died.
11/18/1988Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
1/25/1992Swaran Singh and Vajpayee awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
2/26/1975Bhanubhai Shah established the first kite museum of India called 'Shankar Kendara' in Ahmedabad.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
12/27/1901Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
2/10/1897Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
1/14/1999At least 51 persons are killed and several injured in a stampede at a hilltop at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala in Kerala.
11/10/1991South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India.
11/3/1999Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).