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Historical Event on 10/30/1977

One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/16/1990Dr. M. Channa Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
12/27/1962India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir.
1/21/1997Delhi was the first city to use propane gas when 50 autorickshaws were started on trial basis.
7/12/1864Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade, great Historian, was born.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
7/12/200067 persons died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Ghatkopar, a Mumbai suburb.
6/22/1993Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit.
9/15/1926Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes.