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Historical Event on 2/1/1929
Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1983 | Micheal Chopra, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Newcastle, England. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 8/17/1994 | Opposition ends Parliament boycott. |
| 11/14/1997 | N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 3/21/1997 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 12/25/1964 | Indian Ocean hurricane kills 4,000 in Ceylon, 3,000 in Indian province of Madras. |
| 2/1/1785 | Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time. |
| 9/11/1888 | Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
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