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Historical Event on 5/30/1985
Earthquake in Srinagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/3/1985 | Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988. |
| 12/23/1989 | V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990. |
| 2/12/1987 | Mahamayaprasad Sinha, former Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away. |
| 2/14/1999 | Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal. |
| 2/5/1949 | Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed. |
| 11/3/1900 | Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born. |
| 5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
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