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Historical Event on 1/30/1999

Gopinath Bordoloi was awarded the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, The Highest Civilian Award in India. 1999.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/3/1901Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, was born. He was the first winner of the conveted Gyaanpeeth Award in 1965 for his poems "Odakkuzhal" in Malayalam.
4/15/1919British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
2/6/1994Indian Union Muslim League splits, G.M.Banatwala elected President in place of Ibrahim Sulaiman Sait.
2/15/1976The Division of Publication & Information was established in I.C.M.R. Headquarters.
2/28/1918Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
3/5/1995India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel.
3/5/1995Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur.
3/5/1995Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.
11/5/1995Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires.
7/13/1660Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died.