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Historical Event on 3/9/1897

Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1997Election Commission agrees to grant national party status to Bahujan Samaj Party but asks it to give up its election symbol--elephant.
8/18/1800Fort William College was established at Calcutta.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
8/14/1997Special session of Parliament to commemorate 50 years of independence.
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
9/1/1989Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born.
10/30/1883Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
8/13/1963Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73.