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Historical Event on 1/29/1780
Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
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| 1/17/1933 | Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims), was born. |
| 1/7/1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born. |
| 7/12/1980 | Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha. |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 2/18/1918 | Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 8/2/1781 | Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 1/18/1994 | India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington. |
| 8/4/1935 | Government of India got the Royal Assent Act 1935. |
| 1/1/1995 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Tolerance"". |
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