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Historical Event on 10/9/1931

Air Force was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
6/4/1987A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India.
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
2/13/1861Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians.
3/22/1969The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
1/2/1967University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.
2/28/1997Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
12/26/1904First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India.