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Historical Event on 11/9/1997
Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1921 | Ahmed Gulsher, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Satna (M.P). |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
| 10/30/1996 | CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 3/26/1942 | Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi. |
| 11/15/1991 | Import curbs on capital goods relaxed. |
| 5/15/1992 | Harshad Mehta suspended. |
| 3/26/1969 | Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-), was born in Jalandhar. |
| 7/2/1972 | Shimla Treaty' was singed between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Pakistani counterpart Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. |
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