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Historical Event on 1/9/1993

An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
12/20/1992BJP launches campaign to oust Rao government; Vajpayee goes on fast.
12/20/1992Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
2/18/1906Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, chief of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born.
5/8/1990Paul Mantosh and Joss Fernandes take oath as nominated Anglo-Indian members in Lok Sabha.
5/28/1972Edward VIII, King of Great Britain/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), passed away at the age of 77.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
4/9/1997Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
8/15/1997K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.