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Historical Event on 1/1/1995

N.D.Tiwari steps down as president of UP Congress committee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1998A Disaster Management Cell (DMC) under the direct command of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Air Command, was set up at the Command Operations Room to liaise with the State Government and initiate necessary actions. All aircrafts were evacuated from IAF bases at Jamnagar, Bhuj and Naliya and flown to pre-determined destinations. In this meticulously planned and smoothly executed drill, more than 60 aircrafts (including helicopters) were flown out.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
9/5/1957Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
2/17/1917Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay.
2/15/1920Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta.
7/7/1995Rajan Pillai, 47, died because of denial of timely medical attention by Tihar jail authorities and also within 24 hours of rejection of his plea for medical treatment at Escorts Hospital by the court.
10/22/1962Bakhra-Nangal Dam, a multipurpose river valley project, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
11/5/1961Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.