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Historical Event on 11/10/1698
East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/30/1935 | Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK. |
| 12/1/1994 | Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. |
| 2/17/1992 | S. V. Sheshadri, sports journalist, passed away. |
| 1/29/1983 | Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
| 12/15/1859 | S. Kasturiranga Ayengar, owner of Hindu newspaper, was born. |
| 12/12/1908 | Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire. |
| 7/19/1969 | Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance. |
| 12/8/1970 | Army Ordnance Corps was awarded the 'Colours' by the Vice President of India, Shri G S Pathak, at AOC Centre, Secunderabad. The Ordnance colour is a scarlet silken flag with the Ordnance crest in the center and surrounding it is a wreath of Ashoka Leaves and Lotus flowers. |
| 5/12/1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
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