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Historical Event on 3/9/1650

Saint Tukaram Maharaj, famous saint of Maharashtra, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1912Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
9/24/1995Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University.
9/1/1798England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India.
8/2/1994Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions.
12/24/1972Daily newspaper ""Janshakti"" published it's first edition at Jalgaon.
10/30/1996CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case.
10/19/1910Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
4/1/1954Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.