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Historical Event on 1/1/1979

This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1995K.V. Krishna Rao, J&K Governor, gets another term.
1/28/1999Central Zone won the Deodhar Trophy, defeating South in their final in Agartala.
6/3/1998The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi.
11/2/1999BJP suffers jolt in Bihar as it fails to win a single seat it contested in the October 28 poll to four Lok Sabha seats.
3/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98).
8/2/1959Little Theatre was established.
3/29/1943Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail.
9/30/2000Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.