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Historical Event on 2/1/1889

Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1955Hindu Marriage Act is amended.
9/16/1932Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
1/20/1959Tej Bahadur Sapru passed away.
12/8/1996Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest cricketer to make 3000 runs in test cricket (at the age of 23 yrs and 228 days.)
7/16/1996The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.
3/31/1926Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, who made research in History, passed away.
1/30/1785Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born.
2/14/1994V. P. Singh elected JD Chief in place of S.R. Bommai who stepped down.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
5/12/1997Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries.