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Historical Event on 2/1/1964
Unit Trust of India' established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. |
| 12/25/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the ""Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS. |
| 4/12/1912 | Kirpal Singh Narang, social reformer and educationist, was born at Amritsar (Punjab). |
| 10/2/1929 | Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable trust |
| 9/13/1928 | Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 8/13/1988 | Gajanan Jagirdar, great actor and director in Indian film industry, died. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 1/1/1949 | Saint Eknath, bhagwatbhakt, passed away. |
| 4/29/1957 | The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India. |
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