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Historical Event on 2/1/1972

International Airports Authority of India established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
6/10/1890Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
6/18/1940Forward Block Party was established.
4/23/1930Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.
3/1/1930Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras.
2/2/1952India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras.
8/1/1953Bombay Government decides to abolish ''jagirs'' in merged areas.
2/28/1994Budget with Tax Concessions of Rs.40.81 billion and a deposit of Rs.90.60 billion presented by Dr. Manmohan Singh in Parliament.