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Historical Event on 12/31/1943
Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
| 4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
| 12/31/1988 | Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other. |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 1/28/1877 | Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies. |
| 4/29/1954 | India accepted Tibet as a part of China. |
| 5/7/1994 | Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55. |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 4/5/1987 | The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC). |
| 2/27/1912 | Lawrence Durrell, Britsh writer (Alexandria Quartet, Private Country), was born in Darjeeling, India. . |
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