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Historical Event on 5/30/1999
India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 5/12/1984 | Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras. |
| 1/17/1987 | Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar. |
| 8/15/1955 | Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa. |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 3/21/1976 | The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government. |
| 6/17/2000 | Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi. |
| 5/24/1999 | Noted wrestling coach Dronacharya awardee Guru Hanuman passed away in a road accident near Meerut. |
| 6/1/1964 | Rashid Ghulam Muhammad Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, better known for Lamba incident), was born in Sabarkantha. |
| 6/11/1921 | Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P. |
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