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Historical Event on 1/1/1981

This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year for the Disabled"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/2000Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
11/15/1949Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder.
4/28/1992Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
6/13/1995India and France sign Bilateral Investment Protection pact.
10/15/1949Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged.
2/20/1928Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born.
3/17/1782Salby Teaty was singed between Anderson (British) and Scindia for the Maratha and East India Company.
1/5/1893Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions.
1/20/1997The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.