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Historical Event on 8/1/1882
Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 5/9/1996 | LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections . |
| 6/15/1990 | Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 6/20/1995 | Mayavati Government wins vote of confidence. |
| 9/23/1858 | Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died. |
| 5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
| 1/1/1934 | Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka. |
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