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Historical Event on 9/2/1970
Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/4/1990 | Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989. |
| 12/10/1979 | Mother Teresa wins Nobel Peace prize. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 7/10/1971 | Kochin University was established in Kerala. |
| 4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
| 1/16/1992 | For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat. |
| 4/8/2000 | Air India wins the Rani of Jhansi women's cricket tournament in Chennai. |
| 9/16/1996 | First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 6/10/1987 | Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
| 8/1/1952 | Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru. |
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