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Historical Event on 1/30/1903

Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
9/26/1931At Lancashire, Gandhi sees textile workers hurt by Indian boycott but says home spinning must go on.
6/10/1984Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
4/21/1991Hastmalji Maharaj, Jainbhumi parampujya, passed away.
8/4/1956Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay.
9/15/1916Margaret Lockwood, film actress of 'Lady Vanishes' fame, was born in Karachi, India.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
5/26/1946Gandhiji considers 'Plan' the best document produced by British Government under the circumstances.
3/20/1925Marquess Curzon of Kedleston died this morning at age 66 from complications following an operation. Long a kingpin of the Conservative party, Lord Curzon spent 40 years in public life, serving as Viceroy and Governor General of India and, at the end of his career, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Though he came close to becoming prime minister in 1923, his aristocratic past militated against him in an era which nominated leaders from the House of Commons. He twice wed US women and enjoyed fame as an author of books about politics and his own travels.
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.