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Historical Event on 9/8/1990
Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1990 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 9/4/1993 | Lawyers all over the country decide to abolish addresses like 'My Lord', 'Your Lordship' and replace them with 'Sir', 'Your Honour,' etc. |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 10/3/1831 | Britishers captured Mysore. |
| 1/17/1925 | Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 1/8/1890 | Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary. |
| 3/16/1998 | Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party. |
| 4/19/1960 | Meeting of Afro-Asian Conference at New Delhi. |
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