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Historical Event on 11/30/1915

Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/28/1997Calling and holding of bandhs by political parties and other associations or organisations declared 'Illegal and unconstitutional' by a Full Bench of the Kerala High Court.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
5/26/1983R. V. Marathe, father of Postal Index, passed away.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
8/23/1958Marathwada University was started.
5/19/1954The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.
10/15/1686Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era.
5/12/1666Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj meet Aurangzeb and was arrested.
2/27/1854Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company.
7/20/1990GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore.