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Historical Event on 1/31/1983
The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/20/1988 | The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval. |
| 2/25/1970 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away. |
| 10/9/1947 | P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace. |
| 5/29/1947 | Establishment of Indian Standard Institution. |
| 7/6/1917 | Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established. |
| 7/3/1991 | Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% . |
| 6/20/1939 | Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer - pace bowler for India in the 60s, was born in Bombay |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 9/14/1910 | Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 10/15/1994 | SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV. |
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