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Historical Event on 1/1/1934
Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/1/1909 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay. |
2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
8/1/1672 | The East India Company and the English law was for the first time intorduced in India. It was set up as directed by the Court of Judicature. |
9/2/1984 | Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar. |
9/14/1774 | Bentik, first Governor General of India, was born. |
1/25/1983 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Acharya Vinobha Bhave (Posthumous) (1895-1982). |
12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
5/17/2000 | The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place. |
10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
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