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Historical Event on 1/21/1970
Harivinayak Pataskar, former Central Minister and Governor of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1966 | Tashkent Conference between Pakistan and Indian leaders ended after signing of peace accord by Lal Bahadur Shastri and General Ayub Khan. |
| 7/20/1955 | Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar. |
| 3/1/1998 | Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda. |
| 2/24/1996 | Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 11/16/1883 | Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 2/11/1997 | A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments. |
| 4/3/1994 | B. Rachaiah,Kerala Governor, takes charge of Goa. |
| 6/14/1880 | Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born. |
| 9/17/1929 | La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras. |
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