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Historical Event on 11/1/1974

Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v S Africa 1996 ), was born in Hyderabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1926Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
7/25/1977B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President.
4/1/1912The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
3/1/1917Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
4/13/1982Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away.
9/28/1985The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named ""Trishna"", sailed off from Bombay. (10-1-87).
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
8/7/1925Monkombu 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.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.