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Historical Event on 9/2/1970

Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.

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4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
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8/17/1994Opposition ends Parliament boycott.
7/5/1999Two buses, which were inaugurated from Dhaka, arrive in Calcutta.
9/9/1997G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'.
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4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
6/27/1839Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of Punjab and Spiritual Guru of sikh community, passed away.
11/10/2000R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.