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Historical Event on 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/1925Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
4/6/1998The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
3/22/2000P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry.
8/25/1999Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.