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Historical Event on 10/9/1968

Olympic Games open in Mexico City.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
10/12/1911Vijay Madhavji Merchant Thackersey, cricketer (all-time great Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
5/14/1999Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
11/17/1966India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
5/27/1930Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.
5/23/1895Shivprasad Sitar-E-Hind passed away.
4/25/1993Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
3/26/1980Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
9/25/1990Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old.