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Historical Event on 8/1/1879

Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/28/1950Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away.
4/6/1897Gandhiji submits long memorial to Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Colonies, regarding landing incidents background. Carries on programme of petitioning local and Imperial authorities, as well as of communicating with British and Indian public men regarding discriminatory laws.
7/25/1955Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi.
12/15/1912Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
11/12/1969Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I).
1/10/1980President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government.
12/24/1984Eigth General Elections of India began .
10/30/1883Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
4/6/1993Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19.