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Historical Event on 1/1/1862
Indian Penal Code and code of Criminal Procedure passed on October 6, 1860 came into force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1993 | Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time. |
| 12/25/1964 | Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India. |
| 12/12/1991 | Violence in Karnataka over the centre's notification on Cauvery. |
| 1/30/1997 | Mahatma Gandhi's ashes immersed in Sangam. |
| 2/9/1931 | A set of six stamps were issued during the inauguration of New Delhi. |
| 10/1/1997 | Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72. |
| 2/10/1982 | K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away. |
| 11/17/1994 | North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. |
| 2/25/1976 | India announces plan to penalize parents who have more than two children. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
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