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Historical Event on 1/8/1973

Nanasaheb Parulekar, father of 'Sakal' newspaper, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
6/4/1941National Seva Dal was established.
5/15/1999The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
10/1/1992Broadcasting of Zee TV started.
12/25/1979Opening day of Fourth Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur.
12/22/1928An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.'
8/2/2000The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
12/28/1971Nanak Singh, famous novelist and poet, died at Preet Nagar.
6/1/1997New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.