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Historical Event on 8/1/1927

Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1945Dr. J. J. Rawal, joint director of Nehru Planetarium of Mumbai, was born.
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
10/1/1997Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.
1/22/1998Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
7/24/1993Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
9/9/1997Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
8/30/1983Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.