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Historical Event on 1/12/1994
S. S. Nadkarni, Chairman of National Stock Exchange, appointed SEBI Chairman.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/11/1979 | President N. Sanjiva Reddy declares the opening of the first International Trade Fair of India. |
9/12/1898 | Baldev Prasad Mishra, Hindi litterateur, was born. |
11/10/1938 | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul. |
9/18/1909 | Kilachand Ramdas, famous merchant, was born. |
1/23/1664 | Shahaji Raje died in an accident. |
10/15/1995 | PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York. |
9/29/1990 | Central Government adopt a three-pronged strategy to create additional 30 lakh jobs outside the government sector over the next five years. |
9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
1/29/1781 | First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781. |
1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
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