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Historical Event on 1/2/1960
Raman Lamba, Cricketer was Born
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/8/1985 | P. K. Kaul was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 22-08-1986. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 8/9/1909 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet, play writer, critic of literature, educationist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Savanur. |
| 6/9/1992 | LDF wrests Narakal while the UDF retains the Tanur assembly seat in Kerala. |
| 6/18/1978 | The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened. |
| 5/27/1997 | Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta. |
| 6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 1/31/1997 | INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned. |
| 2/19/1993 | Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya. |
| 1/1/1910 | Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.). |
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