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Historical Event on 4/9/1984
Captain H.J. Singh of Indian Army crossed the Banihal Darsh with the help of Hand Glider and set a new record.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1999 | Pranab Mukherjee and Jaipal Reddy are chosen outstanding parliamentarians for 1997 and 1998 respectively. |
| 5/8/1933 | Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables. |
| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
| 9/20/1993 | First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit. |
| 3/22/1885 | Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born. |
| 7/5/1970 | Indian ship capsized in Krishna River in eastern India claiming 150 lives. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 3/22/2000 | INSAT-3B launched. |
| 3/30/1923 | New financial measures come into force, including restoration of Salt Tax. |
| 6/21/1930 | Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob. |
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