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Historical Event on 1/1/1969
B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/6/1993 | Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat. |
| 4/12/1917 | Mulvantrai Himatlal Mankad better known as ""Vinoo Mankad"", cricketer (India's greatest all-rounder to his time), was born at Jamnagar. |
| 9/7/1988 | President's rule in Mizoram. |
| 5/3/1998 | Kushabhau Thakre takes over as the new BJP President. |
| 3/2/1982 | Indira Gandhi opened Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna. |
| 11/18/1955 | Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi. |
| 11/6/1962 | National Defence Council established. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 6/24/1946 | Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi. |
| 9/1/1921 | Madhav Krishnaji Mantri, right-hand batsman and wicket-keeper, was born at Nasik, Maharashtra. He was the Indian team selector from 1964 to 1968 and was also the team manager in 1990. |
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