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Historical Event on 11/3/1998
The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1982 | Pakistan beats India to win hockey gold in the Asian Games. |
| 8/8/1990 | Naval Godrej, famous Industrialist, died. |
| 1/10/1996 | Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. |
| 1/7/1990 | President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government. |
| 8/27/1946 | Gandhiji cables warning to British Government against repetition of ""Bengal Tragedy"". He also wrote to Wavell. |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/1/1889 | Amrit Kaur, an eminent social worker, freedom fighter and political leader, was born a princess in the royal family of King Harman Singh of Kapoorthala. She assisted Gandhi for 18 years and was connected with World Health Organisation and Red Cross Society. |
| 6/22/1993 | The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23rd, 1856 |
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