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Historical Event on 9/11/1987

Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1980Coal Mine Worker's Day established.
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.
10/24/1995A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.
8/27/1994Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir.
4/17/1945Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan.
5/29/1933Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
6/4/1994Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.
11/24/1992Lok Sabha approves bill seeking to confer Indian citizenship to a child born to an Indian mother outside the country.
5/19/1913Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born.