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Historical Event on 1/31/1969
Saint Meherbaba passed away.
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| 2/23/1993 | Jnanpith Award was given to Sitakant Mahapatra (Oriya). |
| 4/22/1812 | Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born. |
| 2/2/1862 | Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court. |
| 3/11/1997 | Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles. |
| 1/10/1996 | 27th International Film Festival of India begins in New Delhi. |
| 12/27/1929 | Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 10/9/1947 | P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace. |
| 6/1/1947 | Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 6/11/1991 | Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir. |
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