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Historical Event on 9/30/1881

Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, was born at Kanadukattam, Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1991About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.
5/23/1993Channa Reddy,Rajasthan Governor, shifted to Tamil Nadu. Motilal Vohra appointed in UP and B. Satyanarayan Reddy moved to Orissa.
4/1/1973India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction.
4/13/1851Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
6/28/1975As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.
3/17/1782Salby Teaty was singed between Anderson (British) and Scindia for the Maratha and East India Company.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
4/12/1978After several state victories, Congress party-I (for Indira) is recognized as official opposition.
5/13/1953The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.