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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 |
| 10/12/1860 | Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73. |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 1/21/1882 | Vaman Malhar Joshi, Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 2/12/1990 | The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved. |
| 9/25/1928 | Madhavrao Gadkari, great litterateur and editor, was born. |
| 9/1/1978 | Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 1/26/1981 | Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
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