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Historical Event on 1/3/1987
Dr. Harekrishna Mehtab, former Chief Minister of Orrisa and Governer of Mumbai State, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 2/27/1956 | G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 3/5/1851 | Geological Survey of India was established in Calcutta. |
| 5/28/1998 | India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 5/10/1985 | 59 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks. |
| 9/17/1937 | Sitakant Mahapatra, 1933 Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Orria poet, was born. |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 12/27/1999 | PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan. |
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