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Historical Event on 6/30/1995

CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/4/1926Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
11/22/1873Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born.
3/1/1930Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras.
1/30/1949Night Airmail Services was inaugurated.
7/31/1952Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
4/22/1996National Stock Exchange launches a new equity index - the NSE 50.
10/17/1906Swami Ramtirtha, great social reformer and poet, died at the age of 33.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
9/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.