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Historical Event on 1/1/1997
30-year Ganga water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh takes effect.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/27/1959 | Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut. |
| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 5/13/1997 | Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission. |
| 8/13/1997 | Supreme Court lays down guidelines and norms for the effective enforcement of the basic human right of gender equality and guarantee against sexual harassment at work places. |
| 6/29/1909 | Pandit Motilal, social reformer and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 9/2/1894 | Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born. |
| 2/8/1995 | Mulayam Singh wins the crucial vote of strength. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 4/30/1909 | Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab). |
| 4/20/1888 | 246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India. |
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