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Historical Event on 6/30/1823

Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1990All Governors asked to resign.
5/3/1764Mir Kasim, with the backing of Delhi Emperor, attacked on Patna but this weak Emperor was defeated by Britishers. Britishers became the rulers of Bengal, the richest province of India.
10/21/1981Kerala under central rule.
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
4/14/1991NF promises 5-10\% jobs to economically backward sections among the upper castes.
3/24/1977Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India.
3/6/1971Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
3/8/1941Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away.
3/6/1947Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.