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Historical Event on 1/30/1948
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1926 | Imperial Airways announces the first scheduled air service to India from New Year in UK. |
| 1/26/1927 | Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born. |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 12/16/1999 | Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 7/29/1995 | Anup Jalota, famous Bhajan and Ghazal singer, was born. |
| 2/13/1997 | Deve Gowda, PM, dedicates the Rs. 3200-crore 480 MW Uri hydel project in north Kashmir to the nation. |
| 5/7/1912 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born. |
| 1/16/1973 | Om Prakash Mehra, Air Chief Marshal PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/01/1976. |
| 6/5/1994 | India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
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