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Historical Event on 9/1/1988
Fatte Singrao Gaekwad of Baroda, former Member of Parliament, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1916 | Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 8/7/1990 | Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India. |
| 3/18/1916 | Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay. |
| 4/24/1944 | Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away. |
| 4/7/1987 | In a case filed by Saira Banu of Kerela, Supreme Court held that all wives, including Muslim women, whose husbands have either married again or taken a mistress are entitled to maintenance. |
| 11/3/1984 | 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India. |
| 4/2/1933 | Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji ""Ranji"", Maharaj, jamsaheb of Nawanagar and noted cricketer, passed away. He was referred as ""The prince of a little state, but the King of a great game"". He scored 989 Test runs with a 1st-class avg. 56. |
| 2/1/1827 | Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club. |
| 3/13/1992 | K. S. Niranjan, famous Kannad author, passed away. |
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