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Historical Event on 9/23/1999
India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/12/1949 | Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s), was born in Bhadravati, Mysore. He received Padmashree (1971) and Arjun Award (1978). |
9/12/1962 | Raghav Rangayya, famous Hindi poet, story writer and novelist, died. |
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. |
1/18/1992 | Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days. |
5/2/1922 | Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
4/15/1963 | Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad. |
5/24/1875 | Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan established Mohmmad Anglo Oriental School which was renamed in 1920 as 'Aligarh Muslim University'. |
6/23/1942 | Jabbar Patel, film producer, was born. |
10/29/2000 | Jitendra Prasada, senior Congress leader, files nomination papers for the party presidential polls setting the stage for a contest against the incumbent, Ms. Sonia Gandhi. |
9/29/1994 | Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic. |
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