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Historical Event on 2/1/1785

Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/1997Special session of Parliament to commemorate 50 years of independence.
9/5/1872V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.
7/13/1830Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Alexander Duff, in 1921 Scottish Church College, General Assembly s Institution was established with only five students, where teaching of the Bible took an important part.
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
11/14/199710th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
5/14/1907Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
10/24/1856Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.
2/5/2000A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, defends the Gujarat Government's order lifting the ban on Government employees from participating in RSS activities.