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Historical Event on 2/1/1986

Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
7/17/1976Mudliyar A. Ramaswami, Padmabhushan awardee, politician and industrialist, passed away.
5/13/1998India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan.
11/11/1675Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
9/1/1995Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh.
1/8/1908Gandhiji asks the Government for suspension of Registration Act, offers voluntary registration.
9/1/1947Indian Standard Time was adopted.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
3/17/1999An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.