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Historical Event on 7/9/1875

The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1964Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away.
8/18/1985Assam Assembly dissolved (18).
6/4/1926Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
11/2/1984Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll.
9/23/1965The Indian Army secured the Kashmir Valley and the only object left was to clean out the remnants of the Gibraltar Force. Under the guidance of United Nations, the cease-fire came into effect.
1/26/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962.
1/26/1997Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places.
10/2/1904Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh.
8/20/1995305 killed and 345 injured in collision between Purushottam Express and Kalindi Express at Murlinagar near Firozabad (UP).