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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 |
| 2/3/1997 | Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes. |
| 11/12/1997 | India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
| 10/18/1919 | W. A. Sangma, leader of Meghalaya, was born. |
| 12/4/1997 | Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next. |
| 8/18/1969 | Humayun Kabir, great politician, died. |
| 10/15/1918 | Shirdi ke Saibaba' better known as 'Saibaba' passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was saint to all caste and creed people. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 11/30/2000 | Jagdev Singh Talwandi, a former Akali Dal leader, was the unanimous choice as the new SGPC president. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
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