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Historical Event on 7/2/1993
ONGC converted into corporation by ordinance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 10/3/1994 | Bhushan Tiwari, famous Hindi film actor of yesteryears, died. |
| 8/23/1986 | B. G. Deshmukh was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27th March, 1989. |
| 11/8/1988 | At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman. |
| 6/17/1993 | K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 12/15/1997 | Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'. |
| 8/22/1993 | The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu. |
| 1/31/1960 | Milkha Singh at Lahore sets record for 200m in 20.7s. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
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