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Historical Event on 10/1/1981
Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
| 8/15/1955 | Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 9/1/1956 | Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation. |
| 4/6/1773 | James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born. |
| 12/3/1790 | Lord Cornwallis took away the regulation power from Nawab Murshidabad and Sadar Nizamat was removed from Adalat in Calcutta. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 12/1/1947 | India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba. |
| 5/16/1911 | Pumping Station of Calcutta was commissioned at Tallah. |
| 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 |
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