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Historical Event on 8/1/1939

Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1785Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
1/10/199526th International Film Festival of India opens at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.
1/2/1992Central Ministers Cabinet approved that elections will take place after the death of any independent candidate.
6/24/1991The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.
7/14/1997India finishes third in Asian women's weightlifting.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
2/13/1601John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.
9/20/1996Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.