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Historical Event on 7/7/1937
Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1991 | Sonia unanimously elected Congress President by the Working Committee. She, however, declined the offer. |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 12/3/1992 | Indian, UN Operations in Mozambique begins (ONUMOZ - Dec 92 to Oct 94) |
| 3/3/1847 | Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 5/18/1973 | Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee). |
| 2/8/1881 | Faiyaj Khan, famous Indian classical singer, was born. |
| 12/1/1992 | 17 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya. |
| 12/5/1999 | India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World. |
| 5/6/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune. |
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