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Historical Event on 1/1/1967
Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/13/1991 | P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail. |
| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 4/21/1913 | Preview show of 'Raja Harishchandra' was held on April 21 at Olympia Cinema. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 7/23/2000 | Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand. |
| 5/6/2000 | Benoy Krishna Chowdhury (89), veteran freedom fighter and prominent CPI(M) leader, died at a Government Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 6/6/1935 | Harry Crews, great US writer and actor (Indian Runner), was born. |
| 8/20/1917 | Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'. |
| 8/20/1917 | The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East. |
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