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Historical Event on 1/9/1982

A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
4/21/1998Ashok Kumar, Special Secretary, Union Home Ministry, who headed a Central team to Tamil Nadu to assess the law and order situation, was transferred to the Planning Commission.
12/28/1984Eighth General Election of India ends. Indian National Congress party wins with thumping majority.
12/3/1991An all-party delegation from Tamil Nadu led by CM Jayalalita urges the PM to gazette the interim award on Cauvery.
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
3/20/1997Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra.
1/4/1931Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, great orator, eminent journalist, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, died at London during the first Round Table Conference. He was closely associated to Mahatma Gandhi and took active part in Civil Disobedience Movement.