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Historical Event on 3/9/1998
Vishwanathan Anand,Chess legend, wins the Super Grand Master Title.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/10/1995 | General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
| 1/12/1948 | Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji. |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 5/10/1999 | Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 10/1/1887 | Pandit Hridaynath Ajudhianath Kunzru, politician and social worker, was born at Agra. |
| 2/18/1992 | 47 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede. |
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