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Historical Event on 11/30/1982

World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1947Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
5/8/1998Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998.
9/5/1957Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
2/15/1945Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
10/15/1990Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b-1918), the South African black nationalist leader who arrived in India on a five-day visit. He is the first non-Asian to get this honour.
10/14/1997Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex.
5/13/1994Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament.
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.