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Historical Event on 1/2/1979

Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
3/8/1999The President formally revokes the proclamation imposing Central rule in Bihar after this was decided by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day.
4/6/1930Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement.
3/10/193917 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India.
3/28/1645Har Govind Singh, Sikh Guru, died.
4/6/1606Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra.
6/2/1955A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak.
5/1/1902Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives.
5/21/1990Moelvi Muhammad Farouk, great Indian spiritual leader, was murdered.
9/19/1995PM leaves for a 5-day visit to the two Central Asian republics of Turkmenistan and Kyrghistan.