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Historical Event on 1/1/1955
Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1966 | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 7/22/1956 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 10/13/1978 | Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress. |
| 8/17/1992 | 20 members of the Janata Dal led by Ajit Singh break away from the parent body seeking separate seats in the Lok Sabha. |
| 12/15/1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 5/24/2000 | The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi. |
| 1/8/1995 | ONGC's oil rig blow out at Pasalapudi site in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
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