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Historical Event on 1/9/1922

Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.

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3/17/1989Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, president of Lok Dal (B) and former Union Minister, passed away.
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5/7/1950Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
2/18/1911Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
4/1/1855Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.
3/30/1993Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan.
8/26/1874Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born.
6/1/1786Madras General Post Office started functioning.
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.