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Historical Event on 2/1/1889

Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
8/23/1933Mahatma Gandhi was released from government detention in the Poona Civil Hospital after doctors warned that his fast was endangering his life. Gandhi, who undertook the fast eight days ago in protest over being arrested again by British authorities, weighed 90 pounds at the time of his release. There was considerable speculation over what the nationalist leader would do upon regaining his strength, but the common assumption was that he would be arrested again by the British authorities if he resumed his civil disobedience.
7/29/1802Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army.
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
3/16/1946India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
4/24/1973Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay.
7/9/1992The government agrees to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the security scam.
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.