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Historical Event on 1/4/1954
Judge Mehr Chand Mahajan became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 22/12/1954.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/30/1993 | CBI arrests Bhupen Dalal and three other brokers for cheating of LIC Mutual Funds involving Rs.173 crore. |
| 5/14/1993 | Justice V. Ramaswamy decides to resign. |
| 9/29/1836 | Chamber of Commerce and Industry was established in Madras |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 11/22/1916 | Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 5/19/1954 | The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 10/30/1909 | Homi Jahangir Bhabha, famous nuclear scientist, was born in Bombay. |
| 9/23/1911 | Rappal Sangmeshwar Krishnan, noted physics expert of India, was born. |
| 8/5/1981 | Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J). |
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