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Historical Event on 4/1/1839

Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients .

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.
8/18/1800Fort William College was established at Calcutta.
1/7/1831Heinrich Von Stephan, famous general of postal union and freedom fighter, was born at Pomerania.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
10/4/1999Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
11/7/1990National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government.
12/6/1992300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.