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Historical Event on 1/1/1988
On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1979 | Mother Teresa, social worker, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 6/11/1901 | Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born. |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 10/3/2000 | India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership. |
| 8/27/1870 | Sharmajivi Sangha was established in Calcutta by Sashipada Banerji. |
| 7/16/1981 | India performs nuclear Test. |
| 9/2/1894 | Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born. |
| 10/15/2000 | Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-getter in one-day internationals (9379 runs) during his innings of 69 in the final of the ICC cricket tournament against New Zealand |
| 2/3/1916 | Banaras Hindu University was opened under the guidance of Madan Mohan Malaviya. |
| 8/19/1944 | The last Japanese troops driven out of India. |
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