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Historical Event on 9/10/1923

Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/30/1924Word Saving Day.
10/29/1990Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died.
7/25/1987Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President.
1/1/1892Mahadev Haribhai Desai, follower of Gandhiji, was born in Surat district.
1/1/1892Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
10/17/1995BJP withdraws support to Mayavati Government in Uttar Pradesh. UP Governor Motilal Vohra accepts the resignation of Mayawati and her cabinet but asks her to continue as caretaker government. BJP's top brass takes the final decision to break with the BSP.
12/21/1881Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
4/14/1944Blast in ammunition loaded on 1,318 tonned freighter 'S. S. Fort Stikine' which was anchored in Victoria Dock at Bombay. The explosion killed 1376 people, wrecking 27 ships and destroying 40,000 tons of food.
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.
3/3/1948B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.