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Historical Event on 7/21/1935

Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
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2/11/1861Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
5/30/1887The 7th Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment was raised as 37 DOGRAS by Lt. Col V. Rivas at Sialkot.
2/11/1944Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born.
9/14/1910Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
5/23/1914The British India Steamship Co. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. announced their amalgamation at London.
8/19/1934Dr. Hiralal died. He was a distinguished historian and contributed numerous articles to 'Indian Antiquary', 'Epigraphia Indica', The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, etc. He was also an honorary correspondent in Archaeology to the Government of India.
1/1/1851Publication of Marathi newspaper 'Gyanoday'.
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