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Historical Event on 1/30/1993
Dr. Syvatoslav Roerich, 89, renowned painter and husband of film actress Devika Rani, passed away.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
4/29/1998 | India and Myanmar agree upon steps to ensure trans-border security, cooperation in the fight against trafficking of narcotics and implementation of mutually beneficial cross-border projects. |
12/26/1925 | Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born. |
12/12/1971 | The first aerial victory was when MiG-21FLs of No. 47 Squadron shot down a PAF F-104 over the Gulf of Kutch and this was followed by three more victories in quick succession on 17 December, when MiG-21FLs of No. 29 Squadron escorting HF-24 Maruts, shot down intercepting F-104s near Uttarlai in the Rajasthan desert in gun-missile encounters, while a third F-104, on an intruding mission, was shot down by another MiG 21FL of No.29 Squadron. |
6/5/1927 | Sarjit Singh Bal, educationist, was born in Renala Khurd, Punjab. |
3/11/1984 | India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam. |
12/9/1873 | Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building. |
4/23/1955 | Political Committee of Asian-African Conference at Bandung adopted an Indian resolution calling for a ban on atomic weapons. |
4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
12/14/1864 | Jagat Narayan, law expert and educationist, was born. |
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