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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/12/1911 | Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born. |
| 04/21/1995 | Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful. |
| 09/04/1825 | Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'. |
| 08/10/1988 | Ramakrishna Hegde resigns as CM of Karnataka on moral grounds in connection with phone tapping issue. |
| 05/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 02/04/1953 | Indo-Pak talk on Kashmir opened under Dr. Graham in Geneva. |
| 06/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
| 07/03/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
| 09/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 03/09/1989 | Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India. |
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