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Historical Event on 9/6/1965
Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab.
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| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 4/21/1938 | Muhammad Iqbal, famous Urdu poet, passed away. |
| 2/7/1983 | Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta . |
| 8/15/1947 | Indian Independence Day. |
| 4/27/1920 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born. |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
| 3/24/1946 | British Cabinet Mission came to India presided by Lord Pethick Lawrence. |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
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