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Historical Event on 1/1/1879
Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/8/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India. |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
| 2/11/1998 | Prof. Anil Kumar Baruah, CPI(ML) candidate for the Dibrugarh Lok Sabha seat, is shot dead by suspected ULFA militants at Neharani. |
| 11/28/1999 | Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir. |
| 11/16/1988 | India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine. |
| 11/16/1988 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India. |
| 5/22/1996 | 11th Lok Sabha's first session begins. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 3/2/1949 | Sarojini Naidu, ""Nightingale of India"", freedom fighter, social worker and patriot, passed away when she was the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also holds a place of pride among the women freedom fighters of India. She presided over the Kanpur session of Indian National Congress. She took active part in Salt Satyagraha and represented Indian women in Round Table Conference, London, 1931. |
| 6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
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