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Historical Event on 12/1/1921

Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
9/15/1967Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died.
9/5/199530 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.
6/27/1966D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968.
9/11/1995PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies.
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
12/14/1998The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres.
3/11/1689Sambhaji, Shivaji's successor, who was captured at Sangameshwar, was assasinated in the prison of Aurangzeb by Mughal officer Muqurab Khan.
9/4/1947Gandhiji breaks fast.
9/4/1952India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.