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Historical Event on 1/7/1987

Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/4/1903Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
9/14/199778 persons die and around 250 are injured as four bogies of Ahmedabad-Howrah Express de-rail while crossing a bridge on Hasdeo river near Champa Railway Station in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.
3/1/1960National Aeronautical Research Laboratory moves to Bangalore with offices at Palace Road and Jayamahal Road. It soon becomes National Aeronautical Laboratory. Dr Nilakantan invites Dr D M Rao to lead the 4 ft tunnel project.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
7/20/1916Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai.
8/19/1944The last Japanese troops driven out of India.
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.
7/16/1996Narasimha Rao moves Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued against him by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.
5/19/1990S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD.
8/1/1952Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru.