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Historical Event on 3/9/1966
India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/16/1998 | India rejects China's charges on N-tests. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 4/15/1998 | Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna. |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
| 1/17/1997 | Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas. |
| 2/10/1806 | Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Kainakary , Kerala. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 9/24/1829 | Anandram Dhekial Fukan, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, was born. |
| 1/11/1991 | Ravi Naik of Maharashtra Gomanthak party sworn in as the CM of Goa. |
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