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Historical Event on 1/9/1993
An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/5/1992 | Ajit Singh elected 'real J.D.' President. |
| 5/31/1987 | Daman and Diu to remain as union territories after Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
| 3/17/1905 | Narsinghcharya Purohit Tirunarayan Iyyangar, famous Kannad poet, music director and critic, was born. |
| 9/6/1965 | Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab. |
| 2/20/1950 | Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away. |
| 12/12/1959 | Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras. |
| 2/25/1962 | India Congress Party wins elections. |
| 4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
| 6/18/1917 | Lachhmansingh Gill, famous politician and former chief minister, was born. |
| 3/1/1950 | The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000. |
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