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Historical Event on 9/1/1962

Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/19/1998Shruti Khanna won her Maiden title on Indian soil in the Northern India Ladies Championship at the Delhi Golf Course.
6/1/1944Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away.
4/15/1975Janata Party's `People's March' to Parliament.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
1/29/1983Piloo Mody, veteran Parliament member and senior leader of Janata Party, passed away.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
9/29/1959Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.
7/18/1980Madras Doordashan Centre transmitted their first colour transmission for one hour in the afternoon, and this programme was re-transmitted simultaneously by Delhi Doordarshan, India.