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Historical Event on 2/1/1994

ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/26/1989Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
7/16/1992Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President.
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
9/12/1898Baldev Prasad Mishra, Hindi litterateur, was born.
8/1/1955Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.