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Historical Event on 7/1/1930

Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born.

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3/1/1962Gaya University renamed as Magadh University.
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3/22/1902Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
4/1/2000Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.
11/21/1994Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah, 84, noted economist and educationist, died.
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12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.