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Historical Event on 7/2/1993
ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1925 | Mohan Rakesh, veteran Hindi playright, was born. His noted books are ""Aadhe Adhure"" and ""Aashaad Ka Ek Din"". |
| 4/14/1950 | Sri Raman Maharshi, modern south Indian saint, passed away . |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 4/12/1801 | William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta. |
| 12/1/1974 | Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away. |
| 5/27/1968 | Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously. |
| 4/27/1997 | CBI decides to prosecute Bihar CM Laloo Prasad Yadav, former CM Dr. Jagannath Mishra, Union Minister Chandra Deo Prasad Verma and 53 others in the Rs. 950 crore fodder scam case. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 7/16/1905 | A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat. |
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