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Historical Event on 1/7/1900

Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1880Money order system was introduced.
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
9/14/1820Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning.
4/1/1912The imperial capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Old New Delhi and the Province of Delhi was declared by a proclamation.
5/5/1977Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.
10/16/1896Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
5/21/1996General Election (11th) of India ended.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.