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Historical Event on 4/9/1997

Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/28/1972India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.
7/17/1937Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
5/1/1947Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
5/17/1775Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).
2/9/1942Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.
1/24/1996H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.