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Historical Event on 3/1/1910
The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1891 | Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi. |
| 10/28/1998 | The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists. |
| 6/30/1823 | Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 6/20/1992 | CPM decides to back Dr. Sharma. |
| 7/1/1985 | Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office. |
| 1/14/1938 | Belur Math, new temple, was consecrated in Calcutta. |
| 7/5/1981 | Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory. |
| 7/29/1802 | Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army. |
| 6/22/1898 | The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India. |
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