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Historical Event on 1/30/1911

Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/23/1946Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly.
8/3/1995Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government.
7/16/1991Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%.
11/18/1964Dharam Vira was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 27-06-1966
1/10/1979Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
7/26/1891Rajendralal Mitra (Raja), famous Bengali ancient researcher, passed away.
1/22/1990The International Literacy Campaign was launced in the country by the Prime Minister at a national function held at New Delhi. (8-9-90).
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.