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Historical Event on 11/2/1971
Roberto Fernandes, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Goa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1935 | Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 7/20/1924 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar established Bahishkrit Hitkarni Sabha. |
| 9/6/1999 | Vyjayanthimala Bali, former Congress (I) MP, joins the BJP. |
| 3/11/1881 | Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore. |
| 4/13/1982 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away. |
| 7/16/1981 | India performs nuclear Test. |
| 10/19/1905 | Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/8/1995 | Madhu Limaye, veteran national leader, socialist thinker, freedom fighter, politician, writer, close associate of Ram Manohar Lohia and Jaya Prakash Narayan, passed away. |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
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