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Historical Event on 6/9/1986

ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1829Jankibai passed away in jail.
7/20/1829Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district.
10/11/1991Meghalaya placed under President's rule.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
11/18/1936V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician, prolific writer and leader, died.
4/13/1993Bhupan Hazarika wins Phalke Award for 1992.
2/21/1983More than 600 people were killed in the Indian state of Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections.
8/29/1994Tusharkanti Ghosh, world famous Indian journalist, passed away.
1/31/1997INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned.