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Historical Event on 1/7/1956

Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
7/1/1909Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London.
6/5/1989Missile `Trishul' tested successfully.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
1/5/1995Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
5/13/1953The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin.
10/5/1990Dr. Rajkumar Varma, famous Hindi journalist and playwright, died.
1/1/1975Shankarrao Vasudev Kirloskar, famous iindustrialist, died.
7/23/1912Kilachand Ambalal, great industrialist, was born.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.