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Historical Event on 1/9/1982

A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1952Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
10/1/1887Pandit Hridaynath Ajudhianath Kunzru, politician and social worker, was born at Agra.
10/20/1961B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
12/25/1997India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance.
12/29/1927Hakim Ajmal Khan, freedom fighter, litterateur and a true patriot, died.
2/8/1936Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
12/23/1889Mehr Chand Mahajan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
10/2/1969Gandhi's birth centenary celebrated all over the country.
1/3/1994Stalemate persists on the Kashmir issue during Indo-Pak talks that concluded in Islamabad.