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Historical Event on 8/9/1971
A 20-year non-aggression treaty for peace, friendship and co-operation was signed between India and U.S.S.R.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 8/28/1904 | Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi. |
| 12/7/1999 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, rejects the Opposition demand for resignation of three Central Ministers L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati in the Ayodhya case. |
| 6/28/1993 | A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested. |
| 9/29/1914 | German cruiser Emden shells Madras. |
| 6/10/1987 | Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 6/29/1992 | Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship. |
| 7/11/1973 | India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 12/7/1989 | Hemananda Biswal sworn in as Orissa Chief Minister. |
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