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Historical Event on 7/9/1951

India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/2000Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.
10/2/1957All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed.
4/22/1930Revolutionary Surjya Sen's many associates were killed and Surjya Sen ""Masterda"" himself went underground, on Jalalabad Hill and started extending his activities to neighbouring districts.
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
6/18/1993Sunil Mittal, businessman, denies getting any money from Harshad Mehta.
1/9/1993An Indian Airlines TU-154 plane crash lands in Delhi, all the 165 on board escape; Civil Aviation Minister Scindia resigns; PM cancels Dhaka visit; SAARC summit put off.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
5/28/1968Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name.
4/21/1994Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film.
9/19/1997Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta.