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Historical Event on 1/1/1979
This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1995 | 3,400 meter long tunnel at Barcem piercing through the Karmali Ghat in Canacona taluka on the Konkan railway route in Goa completed at an approximate cost of Rs. 50 million. |
| 2/28/1988 | Jaydev, famous music director, passed away. |
| 7/31/1993 | Transport operators begin nation-wide strike. |
| 1/26/1950 | Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok piller situated near Sarnath. |
| 12/23/1926 | Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid. |
| 11/27/1778 | Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon. |
| 4/26/1762 | Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur. |
| 6/28/1993 | A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested. |
| 11/21/1963 | First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme. |
| 2/15/1976 | The Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE) was established at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. |
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