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Historical Event on 1/1/1900

Doordrahsan was started. Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
1/20/1879Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
12/10/1905Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.
2/24/199525 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.
1/11/1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.
3/12/1988Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away.
2/5/1992D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya.
8/15/1993Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
2/10/1999P. Gopi Chand (A.P.) and Aparna Popat (Karnataka) won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National badminton championship in Delhi.