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Significance of 9th May:



According to English calendar Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Kolkata to parents Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. However, as per the Bengali calendar, Rabindra Jayanti will be observed on May 9 this year. Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2025 commemorates the 164th birth anniversary of the versatile Bengali Poet, known for his literary contributions. In 1913, he was honoured with Nobel Prize in Literature. He also established Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal.


1901- Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.

1955- West Germany joins NATO.

1988- New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.

2022- United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law.



Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:

1540- Maharana Pratap was king of the Kingdom of Mewar, in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan, from 1572 until his death in 1597.

1866- Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and political mentor of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.

1988- Sanket Bhosale is an Indian comedian, actor, doctor and television presenter.



Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day:

1986- Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition.

1988- Talat Mahmood was an Indian playback singer who is considered as one of the greatest and most popular Indian male film song and ghazal singers.

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