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Historical Event on 9/30/2000
The Government appoints Dr. D.P.S. Seth as CMD of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/16/1941 | Ashok Vajpai, veteran critic and Hindi poet, was born. |
12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
8/7/1998 | The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force. |
5/4/1854 | The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established. |
4/16/1930 | Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police. |
9/19/1726 | Khandoballal died. |
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