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Historical Event on 10/1/1997

Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/1900S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born.
12/22/1998The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.
9/16/1997General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
4/15/1996Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
1/11/1994Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
5/17/1992Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
7/17/1979Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
1/1/1956No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'.