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Historical Event on 3/9/1989

Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/8/1942Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra.
7/1/1982MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children.
6/26/1954Nehru, Chou En-lai pledge good-neighbor policy at New Delhi.
3/1/1990JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.
8/13/1960Marmik' weekly magzine published.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
6/10/1891Gandhiji called to the Bar.