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Historical Event on 7/1/1938
Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/29/1964 | 1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst. |
| 6/5/1998 | Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 3/4/2000 | Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
| 12/17/1998 | P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/15/1901 | Guru Hanuman was born at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. He was the pioneer and contributor of wrestling in India. He was bestowed with the Padamshri in 1983. His pupil Satpal and Kartar Singh won Gold Medals in Asian Games. |
| 5/23/1996 | In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls. |
| 12/5/1950 | Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away. |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
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