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Historical Event on 1/12/1990

Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/16/1980Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
10/15/1921Suryanarayannamurty Rebbapragada, social reformer, college principal and journalist, was born at Rajahmundry in A.P.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
8/20/1997Arun Gawli, Mumbai underworld don, arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a builder.
11/6/1985Sanjeev Kumar, film actor, died.
2/23/1876Saint Gadgebaba, great modern saint of Maharashtra, was born.
11/23/1908Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born.
3/22/1969The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.