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Historical Event on 7/1/1952

Olympic Games open at Helsinki.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/3/1718Baba Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, great freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Ahlu village, Lahore.
11/1/1999SC refuses to interfere with the Delhi High Court order in TRAI case.
10/4/1972Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.
5/10/1996Union Cabinet recommends to President the dissolution of the 10th Lok Sabha.
5/10/1996Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.
3/11/1963Mahomed Nissar, 6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts @ 28.28, passed away.
1/5/1659Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Khawan near Allahabad.
2/4/1993D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away.
9/16/2000In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.
6/9/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness.