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Historical Event on 7/1/1984

Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1876Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
8/5/1909Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
1/30/1996Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
2/14/16285th Mughal Emperor Shahjahan was crowned.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.