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Historical Event on 6/30/1817
Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/17/1990 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people. |
| 10/18/1995 | President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
| 6/23/1958 | Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority. |
| 8/20/1885 | First meeting of the Indian National Congress held. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 2/24/1996 | S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India. |
| 12/27/1988 | The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan. |
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