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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.

9 July

🇮🇳 In India

1875 Bombay Stock Exchange was established. It was the first stock exchange in the country.

1944 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose accepted the leadership of Azad Hind Fauj.

1951 India's First Five-Year Plan (1951–56) began.

🌎 Elsewhere

1816 Argentina formally declared independence from Spain.

1877 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first official lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only.

1942 Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

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