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Historical Event on 1/1/1891

Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1947Indian Independence Day.
4/3/1950Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born.
10/26/1950Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
2/11/1998The Punjab police unearth a plot to kill Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and Congress(I) leader Sonia Gandhi by a pro-Khalistan militant group.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
11/2/1841Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.
3/17/1999An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.