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Historical Event on 1/1/1966
Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 12/19/2000 | A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city. |
| 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 |
| 1/11/1986 | The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died. |
| 3/13/1971 | Fifth General Election of India ends. |
| 3/13/1971 | Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler. |
| 3/10/1995 | ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days. |
| 1/2/1943 | Vir Bhai Kotwal sacrificed his life. |
| 10/3/1880 | Sakuntal Sangeet held in Anandodbhav Auditorium in Pune. Annasaheb Kirloskar presented the first musical play in Marathi. |
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