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Historical Event on 12/1/1991
Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/28/1936 | Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born. |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 9/16/1997 | Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 11/13/1998 | Pravabati Devi (88), freedom fighter and `Mother Teresa of Orissa', dies at the orphanage set up by her at Chharchanpali. |
| 9/18/1992 | M. Hidayatullah, former Vice President and Chief Justice, died. He was 87. |
| 1/12/1995 | Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000. |
| 11/1/1902 | Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham. |
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