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Historical Event on 2/1/1785
Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1955 | Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test double century, 223 vs NZ. |
| 9/26/1977 | Uday Shankar (Chowdhury), producer and director of dance-based film 'Kalpana', passed away. He was the elder brother of Pandit Ravishankar. His main achievement was the blending of the Indian classical style with the Western Ballet and various folk dances. |
| 12/4/1973 | Mohan Rakesh, famous modern Hindi dramatist, novelist and story writer, passed away. |
| 11/13/1935 | Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP. |
| 2/1/1992 | Mohan Choty, comedy film actor, passed away. |
| 5/1/1940 | Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published. |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 4/9/1695 | Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav. |
| 8/14/1942 | Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, started broadcasting from a secret transmitter on the wave length of 42.84 meters. This channel was used for freedom movement telecasts. |
| 3/9/1951 | Ustad Zakir Hussain, famous Tabla player, was born. |
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