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Historical Event on 1/7/1994

The whole nation pays homage to Kanchi's beloved 'peripatetic tapasvin sage', Shri Shri Shankaracharya Chandrashekharendra, who died on this date during his 100th year.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
10/2/1969Gandhi's birth centenary celebrated all over the country.
5/16/1994Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away.
5/20/1915Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
4/14/1979Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras.
10/28/1929Narotam Puna, cricketer (Bombay NZ off-spinner v England 1966), was born.
4/23/1946Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
12/10/1936Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.