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Historical Event on 1/2/1757

After the Battle of Plassey, Clive, Britisher, defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal and re-captured Calcutta, after it had been seized by the Nawab of Bengal who had used the ""Black Hole"" to imprison British captives.

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10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
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7/31/1914Amar Nath Chawla, politician, was born at Taunggri, (Burma).
9/22/1891Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
12/6/1931Bengal Congress to boycott British goods.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.