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Historical Event on 1/2/1973

General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1901V. Shantaram alias Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, famous film maker and actor (Chitrapat Maharashi), was born.
9/21/1990Supreme Court refuses to stay implementation of Mandal Commission Report.
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
5/21/1998India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing.
9/30/1999A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term.
12/6/2000Bishop Vinod Peter, National Christian Council of India president and church of North India moderator, and Rajasthan CNI Bishop Gerald Andrews die in a car accident near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
11/25/1998Nitish Kumar, Railway Minister, lays the foundation stone for the Chengalpattu-Arakkonam gauge conversion in Kancheepuram. The Kanchi Shankaracharyas stay away from the function following a controversy triggered over the invitation extended to them by the Railways.
5/22/1953Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Darjeeling and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to conquer the Mount Everest (World).