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Historical Event on 6/9/1998

81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1992Petrol and diesel price hiked in 11 states to make it uniform all over the country.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.
10/12/1907Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
8/15/1994At Churchgate railway station on platform No.1, noted film actor A.K. Hangal signalled the start of theatre in a train by waving a green flag.
11/25/1999Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
9/8/1990Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity.
5/21/1994JKLF leader Mohammed Yasim Malik agrees to eschew violence provided the Centre guarantees a dialogue without pre-conditions.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.