ON 9 APRIL IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 9, 2019
1241: Battle of Liegnitz. Mongols armies defeat Poles and Germans
http://www.historynet.com/mongol-invasions-battle-of-liegnitz.htm
1783: Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore, India
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/181671/11/11-chapter%208.pdf
1883: Birth of Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassinated on November 8, 1933
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mohammad-nader-shah-king-of-afghanistan
1893: Birth of Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian and author who died on April 14, 1963
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/rahul-sankrityayan.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Sankrityayan
1942: Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, and Australian warship HMAS Vampire are sunk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_raid
1948: Birth of Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya_Bachchan
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/9-april-1948-jaya-bachchan-indian-actress-and-politician-was-born
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aPbNAbUZo
1965: India and Pakistan engage in border fighting
2001: In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands fundamentalists get together in Peshawar to condemn USA politics in the country