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Historical Event on 1/1/1897
Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/15/1999 | Palvai Purushottam, the sitting Sirpur MLA and TDP candidate, shot dead. |
| 10/3/1992 | Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay. |
| 5/6/2000 | Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000. |
| 1/23/1997 | 50,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down. |
| 2/18/1988 | Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 6/17/1913 | Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born. |
| 3/4/1879 | Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 10/15/1995 | PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York. |
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