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Historical Event on 4/9/1993

Lt. Gen. B.C. Joshi to be the next army chief.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
10/31/1843Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born.
8/1/1947Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan.
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
7/4/1991Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'.
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
9/9/1999Mahesh Bhupathi and Ai Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title in the U.S. Open.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
2/17/1997Anand finishes sixth in the City of Linares category 19 chess where Kasparov makes in four-in-a-row.