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Historical Event on 10/30/1947

The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/19/1992M. Veerappa Moily selected to become the new CM of Karnataka.
10/21/1916Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.
7/22/1981India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
7/27/1992Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
1/16/1988L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.