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Historical Event on 2/1/1972

International Airports Authority of India established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/1/1999SC refuses to interfere with the Delhi High Court order in TRAI case.
11/8/1948Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
10/16/1896Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
1/31/1996Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
2/22/1854Kawasji Nanabhai Dawar started the first Cloth Mill namely 'Bombay Spinning Mills'.
6/23/1920Kesri Jagannathrao Joshi, senior leader of Janata Party in Karnataka, was born.
2/17/1948Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles).