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Historical Event on 6/24/1763
Murshidabad was captured by the East India Company under Major Adams for the second time, and Mir Jaffar was declared the King.
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| 2/19/1994 | IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time. |
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| 9/9/1850 | Bhartendu Harish Chander, father of modern Hindi literature, poet and dramatist, was born. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
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| 4/1/1878 | Calcutta Museum was opened for general public. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
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| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
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