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Historical Event on 1/30/1947
Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1942 | Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world. |
| 5/5/1903 | Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 4/14/1998 | Kushabhau Thakre is declared elected BJP president. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 3/21/1977 | Internal Emergency, promulgated on June 25, 1975, withdrawn by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 3/21/1997 | Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai. |
| 8/27/1992 | The President issues two ordinances making it mandatory for new medical and dental colleges to obtain prior approval of the Medical and Dental Councils of India before their establishment. |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
| 1/27/1994 | 55 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die. |
| 1/23/1814 | Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born. |
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