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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 |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 6/29/1893 | Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee). |
| 8/15/1950 | Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 6/11/2000 | Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district. |
| 3/13/1938 | Hitler merged Austria in Germany. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 2/2/1982 | Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also. |
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