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Historical Event on 4/1/1839

Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients .

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
12/17/1914Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore.
3/3/2000Nitish Kumar, Samata Party leader, sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. Governor V.C. Pande's decision evokes widespread criticism.
2/21/1973V. R. Sonalkar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31-07-1974.
3/19/1972India and Bangladesh singed mutual aid treaty for peace and friendship for 25 years.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
3/2/1994Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up.
1/14/1994The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).
12/16/1921Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river.
10/17/1859Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born.