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Historical Event on 1/7/1997
Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/21/1962 | Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 1/6/1976 | Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 11/12/1880 | Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra). |
| 1/25/1948 | French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament. |
| 3/29/1914 | Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India. |
| 10/3/1988 | Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive. |
| 12/12/1965 | Vijayanta, first India-made millitary tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras. |
| 2/22/1948 | Jayalalitha, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was born. |
| 7/5/1994 | Kiran Bedi, Delhi IG, wins Magsaysay Award. |
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