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Historical Event on 1/10/1839

Tea from India first arrives in UK.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
4/5/1944Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away.
1/19/1892Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born.
11/30/1998Sonia Gandhi names Ashok Ghelot and Sheila Dixit as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Delhi respectively.
1/29/1931Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu.
2/18/1836Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa(1836-86), was born early morning in Kamarpukur village in Hooghly district, West Bengal. His real name was Gadadhar Chatterji. He was God-intoxicated Bengali Shakta saint, Guru of Swami Vivekananda. He exemplified the bhakti dimension of 'Shakta Universalism'.
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
2/10/1943Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
1/14/1843Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born.
2/16/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.