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Historical Event on 12/1/1989
V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/21/1993 | Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity. |
9/20/1992 | Vithhal Badgelwar, painter and sculptor, passed away. |
3/23/1919 | Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"". |
10/31/1895 | Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur. |
6/9/1909 | Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born. |
11/21/1970 | Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist, passed away early morning at Bangalore, Karnataka. His work was influential in the growth of science in India. He was the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics for the 1928 discovery now called Raman scattering which is a change in frequency observed when light is scattered in a transparent material. When monochromatic or laser light is passed through a transparent gas, liquid, or solid and is observed with the spectroscope, the normal spectral line is associated with it lines of longer and of shorter wavelength and this is called the Raman spectrum. Thus the Raman effect is applied in spectrographic chemical analysis and in the determination of molecular structure. |
7/23/1988 | Jahangir Khan, cricketer (4 Tests for India 1932-36), died. |
1/23/1978 | The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions. |
1/23/1978 | Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat. |
12/5/1931 | Jayant G. Nadkarni, former Admiral of Indian Navy, was born. |
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