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Historical Event on 11/23/1999
Vinod Chandra Pandey takes over as the Governor of Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 7/1/1985 | Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 3/22/2000 | P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry. |
| 3/16/1945 | Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away. |
| 3/16/1945 | Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India, was born. |
| 10/18/2000 | Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. |
| 1/19/1960 | Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
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