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Historical Event on 9/8/1991

Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1972C. Rajagopalachari, the only Indian Governor General, died.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
9/21/1997Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi.
6/18/1946First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
6/3/1915Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government.
9/22/1891Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.
4/17/1941Office of Price Administration was formed which handled the rationing of essential commodities.
5/14/1999Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.