ON 30 JANUARY IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 30, 2019
1889: Birth of Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist who died on January 14, 1937
http://www.indianetzone.com/49/chhayavad_hindi_literature.htm
1910: Birth of Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician, father of the Green Revolution in India, who died on November 7, 2000
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/chidambaram-subramaniam-biography.html
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/bharat-ratna-csubramaniam/article4037190.ece
1913: Birth of Amrita Sher-Gil, Indian painter who died on December 5, 1941
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Amrita_Sher-Gil
http://www.fridakahlofans.com/amritafans.com/mainmenu.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMKJjOmYCU
1948: The Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, an Hindu extremist
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gandhi.htm
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/30-january-1948-mahatma-gandhi-father-of-the-nation-was-assassinated
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1002.html
1968: Death of Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, born on April 4, 1889
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/makhanlal-chaturvedi-biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhanlal_Chaturvedi
1972: Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations
1989: The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes
2009: Death of Neiliezhü Üsou, Indian preacher and theologian, born on July 7, 1941
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neiliezh%C3%BC_%C3%9Csou
2010: China suspends military exchanges with Washington in protest of an approved 6.4 billion-dollar arms deal with Taiwan, calling the sale an obstacle to regional peace, according to state media
2013: Myanmar’s authorities lift decades-old ban on public gatherings
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Authorities-lift-decades-old-ban-on-public-gatherings-27007.html
2014: A Bangladeshi court sentences Matiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, and 13 others to death for arms smuggling
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/01/bangladesh-arms-smugglers-sentenced-death-2014130101339413268.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25962798
Holidays and observances
India: Martyrs’ Day