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Historical Event on 1/10/1979

Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1930Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year.
1/1/1877Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
1/22/1989Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds.
10/6/1949Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune.
3/21/1997Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.
3/13/1878The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.
5/14/1982All India Radio renamed as 'Akashwani' but it's Urdu service yet announces that it's All India Radio.
2/4/1934Madhusudan Das ""Utkal Gourab"", passed away. He was described as a great Indian patriot, who wore himself out is giving shape and reality to various nation-building schemes. He wrote a number of articles and poems both in Oriya, English and Bengali to fill people with enthusiasm and patriotism. He was the first non-official Vice Chairman and then Chairman of Cuttack District Board.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
8/16/1965Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts.