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Historical Event on 3/9/1999

Rabri Devi is sworn in Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/26/1947Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion.
5/29/1968Dara Singh becomes the world wrestling champion.
5/5/1906Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
8/9/1966Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort.
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.
8/21/2000Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.
3/16/1997Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
5/26/2000In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.