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Historical Event on 1/1/1994
This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Family"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/6/1946 | P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away. |
| 3/13/1989 | The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab. |
| 5/22/1996 | 11th Lok Sabha's first session begins. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 2/16/1992 | Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. |
| 4/26/1895 | Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 4/23/1938 | Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand. |
| 4/16/1966 | Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away. |
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