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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 |
| 8/2/1994 | Opposition quits Parliament panels, boycotts sessions. |
| 11/7/1867 | Madam Marie Sklodowska, great scientist, professor and Nobel Prize awardee, was born in Poland. |
| 4/15/1997 | Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI. |
| 5/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 10/22/1680 | Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died. |
| 1/8/1984 | Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74. |
| 8/3/1991 | About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle. |
| 7/6/1917 | Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established. |
| 7/6/1917 | Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born. |
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