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Historical Event on 1/2/1959

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83), was born in Purnea, Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/13/2000Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir.
3/12/1988After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.
12/1/1964Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.
12/20/1994The last batch of troops of IAF left the capital city of Mogadishu.. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion by AN-124 contracted by UN.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
3/2/1997Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.
10/1/1919Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar, famous Marathi poet and screenplay writer, was born.
5/13/1918Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born.
11/20/1969The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings.
6/15/1907Narayan Ganesh Goray, freedom fighter and socialist, was born at Hindala (Maharashtra).