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Historical Event on 9/11/1967
China and India exchange artillery fire on Sikkim-Tibet border.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/1/1947 | Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 11/1/1932 | Anadi Sankar Gupta, great educationist, was born at Goila, Bangladesh. |
| 8/1/1997 | Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30. |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/10/1758 | Marathas won the Atak. |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 5/2/1996 | Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 4/16/1853 | The first Railway Train on Indian sub-continent ran over a streach of 21 miles i.e. 35 kms from Bombay to Thane. In the inauguration ceremony, 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder (presently C.S.T.) at 3.30 pm, amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns. |
| 4/15/1883 | Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born. |
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