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Historical Event on 1/10/1693
Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1948 | Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born. |
| 8/18/1900 | Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born. |
| 8/18/1900 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
| 8/26/1967 | Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper in the 1930's), passed away. |
| 3/1/1939 | Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal. |
| 1/3/1997 | Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/12/1996 | Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill. |
| 6/5/1994 | India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China. |
| 5/6/1910 | Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace tonight. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch's sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham. |
| 7/24/1997 | Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali. |
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