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Historical Event on 8/1/1953
All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1997 | Prime Minister inaugurated India's first Science City in Calcutta. |
| 9/25/1857 | Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins. |
| 1/11/1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously. |
| 4/6/1966 | Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone). |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 5/2/1908 | Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot. |
| 5/25/1886 | Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
| 8/14/1920 | Rushikesh Mulgaonkar, Air Chief Marshal (1976-78), was born. |
| 11/24/1969 | Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 6/28/1991 | K. Doraiswamy, a senior executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, was kidnapped by Kashmir ultras. |
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