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Historical Event on 11/30/1990
Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/21/1992 | RBI eases credit policy, lending rates reduced from 6 to 4; 13\% interest ceiling on deposits. |
| 7/4/1985 | Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi. |
| 7/20/1991 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, former Maharaja of Travancore, passed away at the age of 78 years after a brief illness. His term as the descendant of the Chera dynasty saw many progressive reforms in the field of legislation, education and many more. He was hailed as ""Ashoka the second"", and Gandhiji parised him as a ""Historical wonder"". |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 7/10/1972 | Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24 people in Chandka Forest, India. |
| 1/20/1817 | Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College. |
| 2/14/1996 | Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn. |
| 7/1/1989 | Yashvantrao Chavan Open University was established. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 1/10/1912 | Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh. |
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