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Historical Event on 1/6/1972
America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1972 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 10/13/1998 | India, Mauritius sign an agreement on civil aviation in New Delhi in the presence of its two Prime Ministers. |
| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 9/4/1980 | Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi. |
| 3/2/1938 | Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away. |
| 7/3/1975 | Virendrakishor Roy Chaudhary, famous music director, passed away. |
| 1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 4/15/1947 | The new Indian Parliament appeals for non-violence. |
| 11/3/1929 | Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
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