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Historical Event on 3/30/1945
Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1977 | N. K. Mukarji was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1980. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 6/7/1979 | Bhaskara-I, first experimental satellite for Earth resources/meteorology remote sensing and the Second Satellite of India, launched. This satellite carried TV and microwave cameras. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle 'Intercosmos'. |
| 1/19/1892 | Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
| 3/23/1982 | Annasaheb Patil, father of Maratha Mahasangh, passed away. |
| 8/13/1795 | Ahilyabai Holkar passed away at the age of 70. |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
| 2/14/1922 | Bhimsen Joshi, great singer and composer, was born. |
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