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Historical Event on 7/1/1928
Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1957 | Ashok Omprakash Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), was born in Amritsar. |
| 2/7/1856 | Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule. |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 11/16/1962 | Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war. |
| 8/29/1982 | Shree Maa Anandmayee of universal fame passed away. Her body was laid to rest at Shree Anandamayee Ashram in Kankhal. |
| 3/23/1898 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 12/11/1994 | H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka. |
| 2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
| 11/18/1925 | Madhukar Gopal Pathak, noted author and film director, was born. |
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