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Historical Event on 6/30/1968
Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous journalist and litterateur, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1936 | Nutan, film actress, was born. |
| 12/12/1971 | All the facilities and pocket money provided to the former kings were cancelled by the Indian Parliament. |
| 2/14/1985 | Dr. Nagendra Singh elected World Court Chief. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 5/13/1952 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry. |
| 7/1/1965 | Meerut University was established. |
| 1/15/1958 | Tamil becomes the official language of Madras. |
| 10/11/1991 | BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land. |
| 2/25/1897 | A. Vedaratnam, freedom fighter, nationalist and leader, was born in an orthodox Saiva Vellala community. |
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