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Historical Event on 7/1/1962

Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, died at Allahabad.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.
11/7/1912Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore.
6/25/1945Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders.
1/5/1953Andhra University celebrated its silver jubilee.
1/5/1953Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
12/20/1993Bangarappa expelled from Congress for 6 years.
7/10/2000Pete Sampras wins his 7th singles Wimbledon title and his 13th Grand Slam title overtaking Roy Emerson's 12 titles.
5/17/1992Import of 106 life-saving drugs and 37 equipments allowed.
8/11/1922Manmohan Krishna, famous actor, was born.
3/26/1918Vanavihari B.N. Sundara Rao, great author and journalist, was born at Varthur, Bangalore.