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Historical Event on 1/7/1685

Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
6/13/1918Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai.
1/28/1996Dev Kanta Baruah, first President of former Congress, passed away at New Delhi at the age of 82.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
3/1/1903Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born.
12/20/1990India and Pakistan agree not to attack each other's nuclear installations.
1/6/1993India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project.