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Historical Event on 7/1/1882

Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great professor, politician, physician, leader and veteran nationalist, was born at Patna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
9/26/1991Ordinance to amend MRTP Act and the Companies Act totally removes pre-entry restrictions on new industrial houses and expansion of the existing ones.
8/9/1942The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'.
4/23/1991Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab.
12/1/1960Air Marshal Aspy Merwan Engineer DFC became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/07/1964.
9/2/1946Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided india, against Partition.
1/29/1939Radical Subhas Chandra Rose beats Gandhi's candidature to become Indian President.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.
4/15/1883Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.