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Historical Event on 8/9/1963

India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
5/29/1658Dara Shukoh was utterly defeated by Aurangzeb in the battle of Samugarh near Agra.
11/7/1950King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu.
9/1/1998Leaded petrol is banned in Delhi.
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
1/11/1994Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
3/20/1925Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died this morning at age 66 from complications following an operation. Long a kingpin of the Conservative party, Lord Curzon spent 40 years in public life, serving as Viceroy and Governor General of India and, at the end of his career, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Though he came close to becoming prime minister in 1923, his aristocratic past militated against him in an era which nominated leaders from the House of Commons. He twice wed US women and enjoyed fame as an author of books about politics and his own travels.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
4/5/1989Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.
2/1/1942Lt Col HT Hogan raised the Regiment at Malir Cantonment.