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Historical Event on 1/12/1990
Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1992 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was announced to be given to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. |
| 1/22/1992 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 8/15/1997 | K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament. |
| 11/23/1897 | Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born. |
| 11/23/1897 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India. |
| 7/12/1960 | Ranchi University was established. |
| 2/19/1996 | Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 8/29/1612 | Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese. |
| 10/13/1967 | Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
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