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Historical Event on 12/09/1484

Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.

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3/9/1996India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
9/28/2000Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney.
1/1/1981This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".
5/6/1971D. Sen became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 29/03/77).
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
1/1/1979This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".
9/10/2000Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.