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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 3/22/1915 | Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born. |
| 9/16/1931 | R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/22/1991 | Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan expelled from Janata Dal. |
| 3/24/1968 | The second Indian-made rocket 'Menaka' successfully launched at the Thumba station. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 11/18/1997 | Puttaveeramma of Ishwatha Ashrama Vidyaranyapuram, Vishveshwara Nagar, Mysore, conferred with the 'Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award 1997' for lifelong exemplary service to poor destitute women, in particular deaf and dumb girl children. |
| 9/2/1960 | Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away. |
| 3/22/1969 | The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated. |
| 11/3/1948 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly. |
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