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Historical Event on 1/11/1990
R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 8/1/1962 | Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 7/21/1977 | Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away. |
| 1/3/1975 | Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier. |
| 4/11/1887 | Jamini Roy, famous artist, was born. |
| 8/26/1927 | Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta. |
| 12/9/1825 | Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born. |
| 3/31/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1841-1956) (Posthumous). |
| 7/29/1901 | Rudyard 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. |
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