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Historical Event on 1/7/1994

The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/9/1999India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
1/31/1997Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5).
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
6/1/1927Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born.
4/21/1995Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful.
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
8/3/1967Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died.
5/23/1998L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs.