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Historical Event on 12/1/1993

Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
11/30/1909Ramesh Chandra died.
11/8/2000Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen.
5/17/2000The Union Cabinet clears a proposal for setting up a new appellate tribunal for foreign exchange following the repeal of the FERA and the enactment of FEMA in its place.
8/9/1969Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'.
8/9/1969Royal Charter forms the East India Company, setting in motion a process that ultimately results in the subjugation of India under British rule.
12/17/1959Pattabhi Sitaramayya, president of Indian National Congress and politician, died at the age of 78.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
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.
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.