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Historical Event on 9/8/1991

Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
10/13/1989Panchayati Raj and Nagarpalika Bills defeated in Rajya Sabha.
7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
9/4/1990An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities.
1/10/199627th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi.
9/6/1990Prasar Bharti' bill passed in Parliament.
10/21/1943Azad Hind Government was established in Singapore and Netaji Subhashchandra Bose was elected as its national leader.