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Historical Event on 6/30/1968

Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous journalist and litterateur, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.
10/2/1952Community Development Programme started.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
8/23/1994Arati Gupta (Saha) succumbed to an incurable jaundice. (29-9-99).
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
1/18/1977Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.
12/28/2000India, Russia sign their biggest yet defence deal for licensed production of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets worth $3 billion.
4/13/1982Pandit Parmanand, founder member of `Gather Party', passed away.