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Historical Event on 1/8/1992
Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
| 3/1/1990 | BJP swept to power in Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, shares power with JD in Gujarat and Rajasthan. |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 4/24/1972 | Jamini Roy, Padmabhushan awardee and famous painter, passed away. |
| 8/14/1993 | 15 bus passengers massacred in J&K. |
| 9/22/1789 | Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department. |
| 4/26/1858 | Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
| 3/16/1998 | Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party. |
| 7/30/1622 | Tulsidas, devotee of God Rama Saint, great poet and writer of Ramayana, Hanuman chalisa and many many more, died. There are difference in dates 30/7 or 23/10/1623. |
| 6/22/1920 | Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate, cricketer (batted in 9 Tests for India 1946-52), was born in Sangor, Vidarbha. |
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