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Historical Event on 7/1/1862

Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
8/25/1999Former Indian Davis Cup captain Narendra Nath died in Delhi.
4/8/1887Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.
9/20/1856Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
6/24/1991The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP.
1/10/1975India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
4/17/1975Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, India's second president, died at Madras.
5/17/1991Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.