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Historical Event on 1/2/1990

Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
12/25/1924Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
3/4/1895Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born.
10/9/1931Air Force was established.
3/31/1959Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
4/30/1988Raj Kapoor gets Dada Saheb Phalke award for 1988.
5/31/1818Samachar Darpan, the first vernacular newspaper, was published in Bengali language by Carey and Marshman from Serampore.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
5/7/1973The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh.