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Historical Event on 6/30/1997

Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
10/18/1992Zimbabwe's first Test match vs India at Harare.
6/29/1997Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany.
4/12/1936Nehru urges Socialism for India.
4/12/1936Babur reached to his capital Agra after winning Bengal.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
9/4/1888Mahatma Gandhi left for London, England to study Law.
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.