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Historical Event on 7/1/1955

S. P. Kampani, was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 18-07-1957.

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2/1/1944Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born.
6/2/1988Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away.
2/17/1994Chimanbhai Patel, chief minister of Gujrat, passed away at the age of 65 years.
9/17/1999Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
1/10/1888Marathas were defeated in the third and last war against the British at Rampura.
9/10/1915Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore.
9/6/1657Shahjahan fell ill. His four sons Dara Shikoh, Suja, Aurangzeb and Murad advanced towards Delhi to capture the throne.
4/23/1987Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.
7/6/1998Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja.