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Historical Event on 6/30/1979
R. D. Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation. He was there in this office till 24 Jan. 1980.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/27/1952 | Vigyan Mandir inaugurated at Nazafgarh Road, New Delhi. |
12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
2/21/1991 | The President accepts the resignation of 5 cabinet members who were disqualified by the Speaker as per the anti-defection law. |
8/3/1984 | Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
6/2/1984 | Army takes control in Punjab as 22 people are killed in Sikh struggle for autonomy. The state is declared a restricted area under the Foreigners' Act. |
8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
9/10/1923 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away. |
11/24/1999 | The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off. |
1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
9/19/1950 | U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York. |
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