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Historical Event on 4/30/1988
Raj Kapoor gets Dada Saheb Phalke award for 1988.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1927 | A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born. |
| 8/8/2000 | The Government appoints Air Marshal P. Rajkumar to head the court of enquiry to probe the Alliance Air crash near Patna. |
| 1/6/1664 | Chhatrapati Shivaji attacked on Surat. |
| 11/15/1988 | Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet. |
| 12/17/1933 | Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 5/26/1957 | Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay. |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
| 7/3/1991 | Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996. |
| 11/7/1867 | Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland. |
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