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Historical Event on 1/1/1988

On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
1/1/1995N.D.Tiwari steps down as president of UP Congress committee.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
5/13/1648Redfort construction was completed
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
12/6/1946Homeguard Organination was established.
8/10/1855Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born.
2/19/1986Computerised railway ticket reservation system was introduced in New Delhi Railway station.
5/27/1999Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P.A. Sangma launch the Nationalist Congress Party.