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Historical Event on 9/5/1872

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.

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3/21/1997Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
4/1/1933Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron.
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3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
4/18/1914Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
4/9/1986First University in India devoted to hygiene established at Vijaywada.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.