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Historical Event on 1/30/1968

Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/11/1957Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League.
4/9/1984Captain H.J. Singh of Indian Army crossed the Banihal Darsh with the help of Hand Glider and set a new record.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
11/15/1991Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant.
5/1/1983V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away.
6/28/1991K. Doraiswamy, a senior executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, was kidnapped by Kashmir ultras.
6/14/1992Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
5/15/1998Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.
11/11/1866Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born.