Austin Indian Community - AustinIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 1/2/1979

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

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1970First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
4/30/1988Raj Kapoor gets Dada Saheb Phalke award for 1988.
3/24/1992Congress (I) strength goes up by six seats in the Rajya Sabha on account of biennial polls.
8/13/1954Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.
2/9/1989Sanjay Khan, actor-director, critically injured in a fire accident.
1/16/1996Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership.
4/10/1982Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi.
10/21/1990Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.
1/2/1979Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).