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Historical Event on 1/1/1994

Hindu Heritage Endowment, first Hindu international trust, was founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/17/1999GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.
2/23/1998BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district.
12/20/1999The Government rejects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's conditional offer to surrender.
3/3/1997Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.
8/3/1905Uma Datt Sraswat, famous writer, was born at Biswan in U.P.
6/19/1947Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
4/7/2000The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars.
10/18/1901Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.