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Historical Event on 8/1/1952
Yajurvindra Singh Jaswant Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman four Tests 1977-79), was born in Rajkot.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1984 | 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India. |
| 7/4/1989 | Union Deputy Ministers were promoted to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 8/1/1879 | Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 3/29/1963 | Siyaramsharan Gupt, great autor of Hindi language, died. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 11/5/1920 | Indian Red Cross society was founded in India under Bengal Act VIII. St.John Ambulance Association is a wing of this societywhich directed Improvement of Health, Prevention of Diseases and Mitigation of Suffering activities. |
| 7/29/1999 | Bandh in Mumbai to protest against the verdict barring Bal Thackeray from voting and contesting any election till December 10, 2001. |
| 9/11/1954 | Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born. |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
| 4/24/1993 | IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar. |
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