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Historical Event on 7/9/1873

Henry Albert John Gidney, greatest leader and politician, was born in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1988The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.
4/8/1994Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM.
10/17/1994Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay.
5/25/1965Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas.
3/4/1990V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.
4/13/1948Bhuvaneshwar became the capital of Orissa.
8/15/1965Television starts in New Delhi.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
2/4/1953Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.