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Historical Event on 9/7/1997
Banned Maoist Communist Centre guns down at least 30 CPI (M) liberation activists, including district committee members and workers, at Ankendar village, 40 km from the district headquarters of Chatra in Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1985 | 59 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks. |
| 6/28/1787 | Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, was born. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 9/22/1992 | Indo-British Extradition Treaty signed in London. |
| 1/1/1988 | The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA. |
| 9/8/1951 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad. |
| 3/22/1947 | India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
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