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Historical Event on 1/7/1885
Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born.
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| 8/14/1998 | The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia. |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 9/16/1916 | M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born. |
| 3/4/1996 | King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 10/16/1990 | Om Shivpuri, famous film and theatre artist, died. |
| 7/13/1974 | India's first one-day international was played vs England at Headingley. |
| 11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
| 5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
| 1/26/1997 | Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places. |
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