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Historical Event on 1/8/1987
P. G. Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/1955 | Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi. |
| 5/19/1993 | S. W. Sohoni, 4 Tests for India, 83 runs @ 16.6, 2 wkts @ 101, passed away. |
| 5/16/1960 | International Telex Service between India and U.K. started. |
| 12/29/1977 | World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay. |
| 2/2/1835 | Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction. |
| 5/12/1992 | Security scandal, RBI extends probe to four foreign banks. |
| 8/1/1931 | Bhairabh Ganguly, cricket test umpire for 5 tests from 1981-85, was born at Bengal. |
| 3/21/1996 | Supreme Court holds that attempt to suicide and its abetment would continue to be punishable offences. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 3/6/1962 | Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away. |
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