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Historical Event on 2/1/1971
Ajaysingh Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Jamnagar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1962 | Major General I. J. Rikhye completed the task in accordance with the memorandum to UNSF, thus fulfilling the mandate of cessation of hostilities without any incident. |
| 3/3/1871 | Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent. |
| 12/1/1900 | Chidambaranar Thiru Thamizaringar, great author, journalist and homeopath, was born at Sirukadambur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/3/1984 | India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged. |
| 9/5/1957 | Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha. |
| 7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
| 9/27/1974 | Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 4/6/1955 | Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died. |
| 7/25/1986 | Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India. |
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