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Historical Event on 7/1/1962

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/4/1987Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.
9/21/1933Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away.
5/12/1987Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
1/19/1990Mr. Jagmohan takes over the administration in J&K as the new Governor after CM Farukh Abdulla resigns.
6/13/1905Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer (England 1929-31), was born.
12/12/1925Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
3/26/1990Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns.
2/10/1995PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister.