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Historical Event on 1/17/1981
Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
10/12/1999 | Sachidanand Sakshi, former BJP MP, joined SP. |
10/12/1999 | Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne. |
12/1/1989 | A 13-member Sikkim Sangram Parishad Ministry headed by Nar Bahadur Bhandari assumes office in Sikkim. |
7/7/1855 | As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta alongwith weapons to fight the British army. |
7/19/1993 | Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away. |
3/12/1991 | Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray admits to an Opposition-sponsored motion for removal of the Supreme Court Judge V. Ramaswamy for alleged misappropriation of public funds, and sets up a three-Judge committee to investigate. |
7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
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'. |
10/26/1990 | V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay. |
9/2/1960 | Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away. |
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