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Historical Event on 1/1/1995

8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/12/2000Neelam Jaswant Singh heaves the discus to a National mark (59.53m) in the Travancore National circuit athletics meet in Thiurvananthapuram.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.
3/13/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947.
3/26/1996The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.
7/25/1970Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away.
8/15/1990Uttar Maharashtra University was established.
5/1/1926Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
1/12/1990Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.