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Historical Event on 1/7/1997

Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1916Shanti Ghosh, great revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Calcutta. She was one of the accused in famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka.
12/20/1959Jasu Patel takes 9-69 during India vs Australia tour at Kanpur.
8/19/1927Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa.
10/2/1869Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai.
1/21/1983R. D. Katari, the first Indian Admiral of Indian Army, passed away.
4/28/1848Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das was born in Calcutta district in Orissa.
4/28/1848Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur.
3/3/1990JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.
8/9/1893Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi story writer and novelist, was born at Bihar in a middle class family.
6/1/1874East India Company was dissolved.