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Historical Event on 1/7/1990
President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1954 | Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons. |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
| 2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
| 6/3/1985 | The week comprising of five working days was implemented in Central Government Offices for its staff. |
| 8/25/1981 | Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra leader, elected the President of Congress. |
| 2/14/1989 | Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985. |
| 4/29/1924 | Purushottam Ramchandra Behr, famous writer and Editor of Marathi literature, was born. |
| 11/27/1993 | Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
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