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Historical Event on 1/2/1979
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).

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2/21/1953	Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM.
12/3/1955	In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union.
4/24/1959	Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.
2/1/1942	17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.
8/21/1995	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
8/21/1995	Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
8/15/1997	The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
8/4/1906	Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
2/14/1976	Urban Land Ceiling Regulation Act comes into force.
3/15/1969	Indian Navy's first Helicopter Squadron was commissioned in Goa.

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Historical Event on 1/2/1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).

Historical Event on 1/2/1979
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).