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Historical Event on 1/1/1914
Dhirendra Nath Mukherji, social worker, was born at Bankura, West Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/14/1967 | US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives. |
| 12/29/1983 | Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs West Indies. |
| 6/27/1998 | Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 11/12/1990 | Uttar Pradesh Government raises the reservation for Backward Classes in direct recruitment to State Services from 15 to 27 per cent. |
| 4/3/1994 | S.Bangarappa, former CM, launches his Karnataka Congress Party. |
| 11/7/1893 | Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37. |
| 1/14/1993 | The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri. |
| 4/28/1952 | The war between Japan and India ended. |
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