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Historical Event on 1/5/1671
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured the 'Salher' fort from Mughals.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/1/1976 | Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started. |
| 6/10/1832 | Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
| 7/2/1997 | Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India. |
| 5/8/1930 | Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest. |
| 9/18/1992 | Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 11/12/1997 | India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 8/16/1946 | Hindus and Muslims riot in Calcutta. 90 people lost their lives and other 900 were hurt. The Muslim League observed a ""Direct Action Day"" and announced its withdrawal of support from all plans. |
| 2/13/1977 | Jasawant Singh, famous physiologist, passed away. |
| 7/19/1938 | Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, great Indian space scientist and mathematician, was born at Kolhapur, Maharashtra. |
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