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Historical Event on 8/1/1993
Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, great freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, died at Jorhat, Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/19/1993 | Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development awarded to Czech President Vaclav Havel. |
| 11/25/1977 | John Lobo became the Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/79). |
| 2/1/1901 | Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
| 5/2/1985 | Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 1/26/1981 | Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval. |
| 1/26/1981 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
| 5/31/1928 | Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975). |
| 7/14/1992 | The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K. |
| 10/15/1949 | Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged. |
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