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Historical Event on 3/9/1996
India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1995 | A.K. Antony elected CM of Kerala. |
| 1/27/1996 | 'Prithvi', surface-to-surface missile, test-fired successfully. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 1/31/1995 | ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997). |
| 12/6/1997 | Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala. |
| 1/23/1897 | Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War. |
| 2/13/1922 | The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence. |
| 1/19/1996 | Upendranath 'Ashk', noted Hindi literary figure known for his disputed writings, passed away. |
| 7/24/1991 | Industrial licensing scrapped. |
| 5/16/1933 | Shani, writer of novel 'Kalajal' and film 'Shaukin', was born. |
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