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Historical Event on 10/31/1966
Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/15/1992 | At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. |
| 2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
| 1/20/1897 | Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants. |
| 8/19/1910 | Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala. |
| 3/23/1992 | G. S. Dhillon, former speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 8/8/1949 | India concludes a treaty with Bhutan. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 4/21/1993 | India announces establishing proof in Pakistan's complicity in Bombay bomb blasts. |
| 9/21/1996 | Rao resigns Congress Party President post. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu 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. |
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