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Historical Event on 1/1/1980
This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/3/1890 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born. |
| 10/24/1605 | Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra. |
| 5/26/1926 | Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam. |
| 6/28/1787 | Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, was born. |
| 2/22/1993 | Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence. |
| 5/1/1996 | International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 11/24/1919 | Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi. |
| 9/2/1946 | Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided india, against Partition. |
| 2/6/1966 | Madurai Kamraj University established. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
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