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Historical Event on 7/1/1999
The Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) of Shankersinh Waghela merges with Congress(I).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/16/1887 | Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born. |
| 8/29/1931 | Gandhi arrives in London for second Round Table Conference on India. |
| 8/22/1980 | Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 6/1/1786 | Madras General Post Office started functioning. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 1/18/1932 | Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 6/1/1964 | Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
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