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Historical Event on 1/1/1932

Publication of Marathi Newspaper 'Sakal' started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
3/10/1873Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born.
12/4/1894Swami Brahmanand was born at Hamirpur district in UP. He joined freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. He also established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960).
11/19/1924Amarjit Singh, great educationist and scientist, was born at Punjab.
10/6/1969Bruna Coutinho, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calangute, Goa. He was recognised as Indian Player of the Year in 1996.
1/26/2001Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar.
9/15/1993Election Commission announces polls in the former BJP-ruled states of UP, MP, HP, Rajasthan and in Delhi and Mizoram.
12/20/1999The Government rejects underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's conditional offer to surrender.
12/4/1924Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding.
2/14/199813 bomb blasts take place in Coimbatore an hour before the BJP president Advani was to address a campaign meeting; 52 people killed.