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Historical Event on 10/1/1894
Sudhi Ranjan Das, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1949 | Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 1/6/1993 | India and Bhutan sign agreement on the giant Sankosh hydro-electric project. |
| 7/14/1636 | Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan. |
| 5/19/1979 | Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away. |
| 3/1/1905 | Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born. |
| 1/23/1809 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa. |
| 5/7/1994 | Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India. |
| 4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
| 3/1/1995 | Iftikar, famous character actor, died. |
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