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Historical Event on 5/1/1983
Amravati University established.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/6/1997 | Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. |
2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
5/6/1997 | 12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi. |
1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
6/3/1890 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born. |
3/29/1999 | A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured. |
4/22/1998 | India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region. |
6/18/1974 | Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died. |
6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950). |
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