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Historical Event on 8/1/1939
Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed.
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| 2/25/1982 | J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away. |
| 7/23/1991 | Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died. |
| 4/20/1989 | R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
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| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 6/13/1932 | Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died. |
| 1/12/1993 | Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh. |
| 10/18/1983 | Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died. |
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