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Historical Event on 10/1/1997
Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1900 | Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
| 9/4/1952 | India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached. |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 2/2/1968 | TERLS dedicated to the United Nations. |
| 4/12/1976 | India set 403 to win against the West Indies. |
| 2/2/1978 | Mahakavi G. Sankara Kurup, Malayalam poet, the first receipent of ""Gyanpeeth Puraskar (Award)"", and many other awards, passed away. |
| 7/12/1949 | Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die. |
| 2/4/1976 | Lok Sabha's life extended by one year. |
| 9/16/1973 | Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died. |
| 3/8/1864 | Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912. |
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