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Historical Event on 2/1/1988

The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88).

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1871Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born.
3/21/1921Indian National Congress decided it's Flag.
5/13/1953The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.
9/28/1924In penance for riots, Gandhi, on hunger strike in Delhi, proclaimed he would break his fast only at death.
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
1/1/1950Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
3/22/1949SSC Examination system started.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.