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Historical Event on 1/30/1999

Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
8/10/1860Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, the great architect of the renaissance of Hindustani music and who played a vital role in giving re-birth to North Indian classical music, was born at Balukeshwar, Maharashtra.
6/19/1991Sudhakar Rao Naik (Cong-I) sworn in as the Maharashtra CM.
2/21/1983More than 600 people were killed in the Indian state of Assam after student agitators protesting the immigration of Muslim refugees from Bangladesh attempted to stop state elections.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
3/11/1992Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
1/7/1994The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year.
12/1/1989V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.
9/1/1942Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army.