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Historical Event on 1/12/2000
T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/3/1765 | Clive became Governor of Bengal for second time from England after he returned to Calcutta. |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 3/8/1963 | Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar. |
| 2/8/1989 | Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 4/28/1945 | Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/30/1987 | India says it will revive the 'Agni' IRBM programe. |
| 7/6/1881 | Saint Gulabrao Maharaj was born in Vidarbha. |
| 3/31/1994 | Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India. |
| 2/9/1874 | Govind Tryambak Darekar, Marathi poet, was born. |
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