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Historical Event on 8/1/1957
National Book Trust inaugurated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 6/2/1986 | One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab. |
| 3/11/1994 | The Supreme Court upholds sacking of BJP Governments; Balasaheb Deoras quits as RSS Chief; Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya to succeed. |
| 9/10/1915 | Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 9/30/1996 | Phase I assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1/10/1839 | Tea from India first arrives in UK. |
| 1/10/1839 | Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle. |
| 4/20/1993 | Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade. |
| 3/1/1903 | Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born. |
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