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Historical Event on 9/6/1996
A Delhi court says there are grounds for framing charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against L.K. Advani.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/22/1933 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva. |
| 7/29/1884 | Tyagraj Paramshiv Kailasam, leading playwright of Kannad language, was born. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 2/3/1983 | Prime Minister Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of Assam's new capital 'Pragjyotishpur'. |
| 6/30/1966 | Judge K. Subba Rao became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 11/04/1967. |
| 1/23/1961 | Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films. |
| 6/27/1966 | D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968. |
| 8/21/1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 11/6/1931 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Ramavarma, ascended throne and ruled state of Travancore as Maharaja, passed away. |
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