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Historical Event on 9/1/1668

Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1668General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India.
4/10/1997Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai.
11/13/1992Dr. Pundalik Dattatrya Gaitonde, Goa freedom fighter, passed away.
3/24/1855First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km.
4/18/1931Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
3/10/1993The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.
9/15/1912Rusi Karanjia, journalist and publisher, was born.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
3/4/1951Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.