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Historical Event on 1/1/1989
Dinkar Sakrikar, editor of monthly magzine 'Purva' and socialist, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/3/1992 | Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first). |
9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
10/24/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics. |
9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
11/22/1718 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain. |
5/27/1994 | Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away. |
2/14/1922 | Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born. |
6/12/1947 | Gandhiji addresses Congress Working Committee. |
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