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Historical Event on 1/2/1979
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1959 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari opposed the Socialist Policies of Indian National Congress and founded Swatantra Party alongwith Ranga. |
| 10/19/1905 | Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London. |
| 11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
| 8/7/1905 | The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta. |
| 1/29/1983 | Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away. |
| 9/7/2000 | The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999. |
| 11/22/1873 | Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born. |
| 2/1/1889 | Amrit Kaur, an eminent social worker, freedom fighter and political leader, was born a princess in the royal family of King Harman Singh of Kapoorthala. She assisted Gandhi for 18 years and was connected with World Health Organisation and Red Cross Society. |
| 4/23/1959 | Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 2/22/1944 | Kasturba Gandhi passed away in British imprisonment in Aga Khan Palace at Pune. |
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