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Historical Event on 9/4/1962
Kiran Shankar More, great Indian wicket-keeper in 49 Tests 1986-93, was born in Baroda.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 2/28/1900 | Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born. |
| 12/26/1801 | Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter. |
| 2/4/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from prison unconditionally at Bombay. |
| 9/5/1990 | Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee. |
| 12/31/1900 | Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay. |
| 1/10/1998 | Nine Ranbir Sena supporters are killed in an ambush at Rampurchauram village in Bihar's Jehanabad district. |
| 10/17/1920 | Bhartiya Communist Party was formed at Tashkent with seven members including M.N. Roy, Birendra Chattopadhyay and Abani Mukherji. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
| 9/25/1997 | India clinches the Red & White Latif Masters International Snooker title in Karachi. |
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