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Historical Event on 7/30/1960
Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, great freedom fighter, leader and 'Lion of Karnataka', 0died. He was a loyal Congress leader.
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| 1/5/1994 | Tamil Nadu Assembly passes two bills making the Chief Minister, the Chancellor of all universities instead of the Governor. |
| 11/25/1984 | Yashwantrao B. Chavhan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Deputy Prime Minister, passed away. |
| 10/15/1996 | Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives. |
| 1/12/2000 | Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000. |
| 12/5/1931 | Gandhiji leaves England for India. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 2/4/1948 | Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur. |
| 2/1/1855 | East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 4/3/1994 | B. Rachaiah,Kerala Governor, takes charge of Goa. |
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