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Historical Event on 1/2/1990
Election panel made one member body again; Election Commissioners S. S. Dhanoa and V. S. Seigell removed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1921 | Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39. |
| 2/22/1997 | India outplays Poland in the final hockey `Test' and win series 2-0. |
| 11/29/1989 | Voters oust Gandhi and Congress party |
| 3/12/1992 | A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property. |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 11/19/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security. |
| 11/15/2000 | Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi. |
| 4/1/1935 | The Reserve Bank of India was established as a Central Bank and the job of issuing notes was entrusted to this bank. The Commissioner's office which issued currency was abolished and was substituted by the Governer of the RBI. The issue offices scattered around the country came to be called as the regional offices of the Reserve Bank. |
| 8/9/2000 | Parliament approves the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2000, paving the way for the creation of a separate Chhattisgarh State. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
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