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Historical Event on 1/5/1974
Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1984 | Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth which carried 3 cosmonauts including the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma, to Salyut 7. |
| 2/1/1917 | Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 6/9/1999 | The Indian army occupies two key positions in the Batalik sector. |
| 11/29/1952 | First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay. |
| 3/1/1905 | Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born. |
| 10/30/1887 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born. |
| 7/31/1993 | K. Vijaya Rama Rao became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/96). |
| 2/17/1968 | Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away. |
| 2/23/1998 | Ramdeo Singh, freedom fighter, is shot dead at Salaunchak village in Bihar. |
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