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Historical Event on 11/9/1997
Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1843 | Robert Koch, famous French scientist, was born in Clausthal village, Germany. |
| 10/29/1935 | Narendra Kumar Chhajerh, great industrialist, was born. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 9/5/1846 | Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died. |
| 2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
| 1/19/1990 | Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns. |
| 4/27/1857 | Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of India's first Cinema Hall - 'Elphinstone Palace' at Calcutta, Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, was born. |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 5/1/1996 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
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