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Historical Event on 6/9/1997
At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1994 | Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55. |
| 4/20/1965 | First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 8/3/1957 | Devdas Gandhi, son of Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhiji and noted journalist, passed away. |
| 3/30/1945 | Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born. |
| 1/10/1912 | Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 7/4/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment. |
| 3/1/1962 | Gaya University renamed as Magadh University. |
| 10/3/1994 | Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
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