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Historical Event on 5/1/1879
Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/27/1987 | P. T. Usha nominated the Asian Athlete of 1986 by the US Sports Academy (USA). |
| 3/21/1791 | Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 3/6/2000 | India and China begin the first ever bilateral security dialogue in Beijing on global and regional issues of mutual interest. |
| 11/27/1984 | Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay. |
| 8/20/1921 | The Mopla revolt, one of the important uprisings of India, was started at Kerala. |
| 3/8/1957 | Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, prominent leader in Maharashtra and former Chief Minister of Mumbai province, passed away. |
| 1/16/1858 | Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
| 9/8/1790 | Lord Edward Alanbaro, Governor General of India (1842 to 1844), was born. |
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