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Historical Event on 8/30/1928
Jawaharlal Nehru lays his plans for a free India and becomes president of Congress Party in 1929.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1890 | Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary. |
| 4/12/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born. |
| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
| 7/8/1918 | Montagu - Chelmsford Report was published. This report was prepared to reform the legislature of India. This report was made by Edwin Montagu who was the Secretary of States for India and Lord Chelmsford, who was the Viceroy. |
| 7/21/1977 | Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away. |
| 6/11/1983 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter, social reformer, pioneer of Indian business, industry, and nationalist, died at London at the age of 89. |
| 8/19/1994 | Rupee made fully convertible on current account. |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
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