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Historical Event on 1/9/1923

Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1949Indian Boy Scout and Girl Guide were established and renamed as Bharat Scouts and Guides.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
7/31/1902Keshav Shankar Pillai, great writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Kayamkulam in Kerala.
9/27/2000Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
5/29/1947Establishment of Indian Standard Institution.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
9/21/1994Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat.
1/1/1969B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970.
12/17/1934Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.