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Historical Event on 1/1/1965

This year was announced to be observed as the ""Year of International Co-operation"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/23/1967Pandey Bechain Sharma (Ugra) passed away.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.
11/24/1899Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District.
7/14/1854Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born.
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
7/9/1755E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War.
9/24/1932Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"".
1/5/1893Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions.
2/28/1951Karsan Devji Ghavri, cricketer (Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s), was born in Rajkot.