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Historical Event on 9/2/1993
Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 1/18/1983 | Indi Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 12/29/1975 | D.K. Barooah elected Congress President. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 10/20/1992 | Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire. |
| 2/21/1992 | Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections. |
| 11/14/1969 | Jawaharlal Nehru University inaugurated in New Delhi. |
| 11/14/1969 | Akbar attacked on Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar. |
| 12/20/1999 | The Government rejects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's conditional offer to surrender. |
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