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Historical Event on 2/1/1968

United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1927Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.
11/7/1966Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
1/19/1976C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died.
1/10/1986Pakistan decides to lift 8-year-old ban on private trade with India.
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
9/12/1990Konkan Railway project formally launched with the opening of a project office in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra State.
12/26/1904First cross-country motor car race inaugurated between Dehli and Bombay started its rally. It was organised by Motor Union of Western India.
12/26/1904Surdas (1483-1563), blind Hindi bard and singer of Agra whose hymns to Krishna are compiled in the 'Sursagar', was born in Sihi village near Delhi.