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Historical Event on 1/4/1924
Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/9/1695 | Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav. |
| 6/15/1937 | Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji, cricketer (Indian keeper in 60's), was born in Jamnagar. |
| 6/10/1891 | Gandhiji called to the Bar. |
| 6/11/1998 | Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 7/15/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Arjan Singh, Padma Vibhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. After retirement he was appointed as the Ambassador in Switzerland. |
| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 10/17/1970 | Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore. |
| 1/19/1997 | Bengal wins Santosh Trophy National Football championship in Jabalpur. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
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