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Historical Event on 1/2/1757
After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1912 | Alungal Mathai Thomas, social reformer, politician and diplomat, was born at Kurikad, Kerala. |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
| 4/11/1913 | Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh |
| 1/22/1973 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 4/6/1978 | Karnataka beat Uttar Pradesh by an innings and 193 runs to win Ranji Trophy. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 2/22/1858 | Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312. |
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