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Historical Event on 9/9/1947
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
| 3/20/1782 | Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born. |
| 4/30/1909 | Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab). |
| 1/18/1980 | Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in. |
| 11/18/1772 | Madhav Rao Peshwa (the 4th peshwa ruler) died at the age of 28. Narayanrao succeeded him. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl 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'. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
| 10/16/1896 | Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 4/19/1997 | I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda. |
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