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Historical Event on 3/9/1989
Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 11/2/2000 | John Wright is appointed India coach by the BCCI. |
| 9/25/1993 | Soli Sorabji, 63, nominated as Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Court by UN Secretary General. |
| 4/7/1962 | Umrigar slams 172* vs WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes. |
| 9/19/1990 | Rajeev Goswami, a student of Delhi University, attempts to self immolate himself in protest against the implementation of Mandal Commission Report. |
| 3/4/1997 | Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised. |
| 7/12/1864 | Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade, great Historian, was born. |
| 1/1/1981 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"". |
| 3/14/1998 | Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri. |
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