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Historical Event on 1/21/1994
India and Myanmar decide to open border trade.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/23/2000 | Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand. |
1/19/1994 | CM decide to request Chief Election Commission to implement the photo identity card scheme in phases. |
3/14/1997 | Veerendra Patil, 73, twice former Chief Minister of Karnataka, passed away. |
11/16/1988 | India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine. |
4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
4/15/1950 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'. |
6/11/1991 | Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls. |
4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
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