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Historical Event on 1/2/1973
General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/1914 | Cottari Subbanna Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), was born in Nagpur. |
| 4/8/1929 | Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs on the Assembly Hall. |
| 10/10/1756 | Clive sailed from Madras, to capture Calcutta, with a large naval fleet consisting of 900 European and 1500 Indian soldiers along with 5 battle ships, and 5 other vessels. |
| 12/24/1972 | Daily newspaper ""Janshakti"" published it's first edition at Jalgaon. |
| 4/29/1960 | Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away. |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 9/5/1909 | Phiroze Edulji Palia, left-hand batsman and slow spin bowler, was born in Mumbai. He played in India's first Test at Lord's in 1932. |
| 10/25/1990 | Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died. |
| 10/11/1991 | Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated. |
| 8/17/1997 | I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October. |
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