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Historical Event on 10/30/1977

Demonstrators and police clash in Madras as Indira Gandhi tours the country.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
7/11/1964M C Chagla, Union Minister of Education, turns the first sod for the foundation of the 4 ft tunnel.
6/12/2000The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful.
12/25/1995First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras.
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
1/1/1992This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"".
5/25/1899Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.