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Historical Event on 5/1/1972
All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/28/1867 | Swami Vivekanand Sister Nivedita, great freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician, was born at Dunganon in Ireland. |
| 8/17/1848 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born. |
| 1/20/1988 | Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, better known as Sarhadi Gandhi or Frointier Gandhi, passed away. |
| 7/30/1992 | The Supreme Court declares that capitation fee in educational institutions is unlawful. |
| 8/4/1933 | Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 12/25/1972 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away. |
| 12/14/2000 | The Government declares the 10-day old postal strike illegal as per the provisions of the Industrial Dispute Act. |
| 9/11/1888 | Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain. |
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