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Historical Event on 7/9/1951

India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
12/24/1924Mohammed Rafi, famous playback singer, was born.
12/16/1921Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river.
2/18/1918Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born.
1/9/1664Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.
5/26/1885Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.
2/7/1997Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''.
3/21/1836National Library was established.
8/9/1965Pakistan chose to persist while the Indian Army Corps on the ceasefire line got down to neutralizing the Gibraltar Force. As a first step, main infiltration routes were blocked and Pakistan was forced out of the Haji Fir bulge (known to them as Bedori).
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.