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January

What Happened this Day in India History Events.

1595 King Henry IV of France declares war against Spain.
1946 The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council takes place.
1991 The Gulf War started as soon as the US, UK, France forces attacked Iraq.
1995 Hundreds of people died due to earthquake in Kobe city of Japan.
1895 French President Casimir Perrier resigns.
2008 The Central Government approved a scheme of Rs 1800 crore for providing jobs to the disabled.
2009 Randhir Singh, the general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association, resigned from his post.
2010 The Supreme Court of India has given a pro-active definition of the right to self-defense in the event of unlawful assault, saying that people who follow the law do not have to be cowardly. Its two-member bench set a 10-point directive on the right to self-defense, stating that a person cannot be criminalized under these circumstances, even if he had caused the attacker's death.
1923 Juan de la Cieva invented rotary wind aircraft with no rotary power.