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Historical Event on 3/9/1966
India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1956 | India celebrates the birth centenary of Bal Gangadhar ""Lokmanya"" Tilak. |
| 8/22/2000 | Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs. |
| 8/25/1992 | Veerappa Moily, Karnataka minister, stripped of Education portfolio. |
| 12/16/1921 | Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river. |
| 2/15/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 1998 to B.R. Chopra for his contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 1/28/1996 | Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82. |
| 5/22/1772 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician and founder of Brahmo Samaj, was born at Radhanagar in Hooghly district, Bengal. |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 12/19/1984 | 2,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
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