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Historical Event on 12/30/1974

Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
4/13/1919Jallianwala Baug massacre. The great Indian tragedy occured in Amritsar which claimed 389 lives and wounded 1,516 activitists fighting for Indian independence. Early in 1919, the Rowlatt Act (Black Act) was passed. This authorized the Government to imprison any person without any trial and conviction in a court of law. This furious act was under the guidence of cruel Brigedier General R. E. H. Dyer and his 50 men troop. Michael O' Dwyer was then the Governor of Punjab who naturally defended the action. This day is observed as Jallianwala Baug Day.
1/20/1871Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
5/14/2000L. K. Advani, Union Home Minister, announces extension of the ban on the LTTE by two more years.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
12/24/1999Indian Airlines Kathmandu-Delhi Airbus 300 with 186 people on board hijacked shortly after take-off.
1/2/1992Central Ministers Cabinet approved that elections will take place after the death of any independent candidate.
4/30/1992Over 7 years after the gas disaster, a Bhopal court orders attachment of Carbide properties in India.