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Historical Event on 6/9/1997
At least 50 persons were killed and 5,000 families affected in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Gangktok.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/9/1980 | P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away. |
| 11/15/1995 | Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 12/28/1971 | Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar. |
| 11/22/1913 | Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born. |
| 1/26/1915 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, was born at Nungkao village, Manipur State. |
| 4/14/1963 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling. |
| 9/29/1990 | Central Government adopt a three-pronged strategy to create additional 30 lakh jobs outside the government sector over the next five years. |
| 12/28/1907 | Vitthal Narayan Kothiwale, great author, was born at Garoth (Malva). |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
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