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Historical Event on 1/9/1996
PM unveils India's state-of-the-art Main Battle Rank (MBT) `Arjun' at a New Delhi function.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/4/1962 | Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda. |
| 7/7/1910 | 'Bharat History Research Mandal' was established. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 11/5/1995 | Common Guidance test flight of Trishul successful. |
| 5/6/1922 | Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 3/12/1944 | No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram. |
| 2/26/1937 | Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 8/2/1993 | Seven JD (A) rebel MPs admitted to Congress (I). |
| 12/12/1961 | Portuguese civilians are evacuated amid fears of an Indian troop invasion at Goa, Daman and Diu. |
| 7/15/1902 | Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
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