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Historical Event on 1/20/1817
Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 5/1/1879 | The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri. |
| 10/21/1934 | Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary. |
| 10/12/1967 | Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia also known as "Dauntless Dr. Lohia", freedom fighter, social reformer and socialist leader, died at the Willingdon Nursing Home, New Delhi. He had founded the 'Praja Socialist Party' in 195 |
| 5/1/1867 | Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna. |
| 2/18/1988 | Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away. |
| 4/11/1999 | Paes-Bhupathi won the doubles in the in the ATP-Gold Flake Open in Chennai. |
| 6/13/1996 | Ramakrishna Hegde, JD leader and former Karnataka CM, expelled from the party for 6 years by JD president Laloo Prasad Yadav for anti-party activities. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
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