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Historical Event on 1/30/1949
Night Airmail Services was inaugurated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1992 | Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her. |
| 5/10/1917 | Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 12/29/1972 | Construction work of Metro Train in Calcutta commenced. |
| 10/13/1905 | Sister Nivedita died. |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 11/28/1704 | Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 11/28/1704 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 4/22/1915 | Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur, was born. |
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