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Historical Event on 6/1/1842
Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1885 | Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 10/30/2000 | The 160-page CBI's report on cricket match-fixing names Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar and former physiotherapist Dr. Ali Irani for their deep-rooted nexus with betting syndicates. It virtually gives a clean chit to Kapil Dev. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/2/2000 | The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution. |
| 2/20/1999 | Mr. Vajpayee travels to Lahore on the inaugural run of the bus between New Delhi and Lahore. |
| 5/19/1990 | S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD. |
| 6/25/1922 | Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 1/1/1975 | Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
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