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Historical Event on 1/24/1857
Calcutta University established.
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| 1/19/1892 | Chintaman Vinayak Joshi, famous Marathi comedy writer, was born. |
| 10/19/1983 | Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler. |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
| 12/20/1992 | BJP launches campaign to oust Rao government; Vajpayee goes on fast. |
| 5/6/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 8/14/1998 | The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
| 4/3/1680 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, great Maratha emperor, patriot, soldier, freedom fighter, revolutionary and great son of India, passed away at Raigarh fort. His son Sambhaji succeeded to the throne. |
| 2/2/1964 | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away. |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
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