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Historical Event on 3/30/1989
Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/7/1901 | J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 7/18/1994 | Munis Raza, famous educationist and former Chancellor of Delhi University, passed away. |
| 9/23/1908 | Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 7/12/1999 | Rajendra Kumar (71), legendary actor who acted in over 150 Hindi films, died in Mumbai. |
| 9/20/1932 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables. |
| 6/19/2000 | Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana. |
| 3/24/1987 | First developmental launch of new generation rocket ASLV 'Stretched Rohini Satellite Series' (SROSS-1). This carried payload for launch vehicle performance monitoring and for gamma ray astronomy. This plunged within two minutes and 40 seconds of its launching. |
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