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Historical Event on 1/2/1994

Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
8/29/2000Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders.
1/1/1897Girja Dayal Girish, great poet and writer, was born at Saraiyan Mahipat Singh, U.P.
1/12/1863Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta.
10/22/1933Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva.
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
7/29/1927Madhavsingh Solanki, one of the leaders in Gujarat, was born.
1/28/1998All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
8/6/1905Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'.