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Historical Event on 2/1/1994

ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1976Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters.
10/15/1918Shirdi ke Saibaba' better known as 'Saibaba' passed away at Shirdi near Nashik, Maharashtra. He was around 70. Born in a Brahmin family at Patri village in Hyderabad, he was saint to all caste and creed people.
3/11/1990Darbarsingh, former Chief Minister of Punjab, passed away.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
10/6/1893Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source.
12/21/1911Central Bank of India established.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
2/3/1954Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.