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Historical Event on 1/1/1988

On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
3/25/1928S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born.
5/5/1955Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce.
5/14/1998India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister.
8/17/1848Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born.
9/29/2000Union Minister of State for Agriculture S.B.P.B.K. Satyanarayana Rao quits the from Cabinet.
9/22/1994G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died.
9/14/1910Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
3/12/1911Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.
3/1/1968Salil Ashok Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989), was born in Solapur.