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Historical Event on 1/1/1950
Inauguration of National Chemical Laboratory at Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 6/9/1964 | Lal Bahadur Shastri became the second Prime Minister of India when the country was shocked of Jawaharlal Nehru's death and Indo-China war. Shastri gave the quotation ""Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"" which motivated the war-affected Indians to boost their morale. He remained in this office till he died on January 11, 1966 at Taskent. In his cabinet, Indira Gandhi served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 5/21/1996 | General Election (11th) of India ended. |
| 4/24/1995 | K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha. |
| 7/15/1980 | Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away. |
| 12/4/1999 | Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor. |
| 5/15/1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 2/5/1991 | The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India. |
| 12/10/1870 | Jadhunath Sarkar, history researcher, was born. |
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