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Historical Event on 2/9/1994

Supreme Court sets aside disqualification (under anti-defection law in 1991) of former Goa CM Ravi Naik.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/19/1994Aishwarya Rai, selected 'Miss World' at the age of 21 in the beauty contest held at the 44th convention at Sun City, South Africa .
3/19/1973Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.
10/15/1899Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born.
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
1/31/1946Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), was born in Calcutta.
10/10/1957Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
10/29/1988Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, freedom fighter and political leader, passed away.
10/2/2000Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey.
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.