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Historical Event on 1/2/1967
University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1947 | Shetkari Kamgar Party was established at Devachi Alandi. |
| 8/25/1975 | Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 8/25/1960 | Olympics opened at Rome. |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 4/5/1922 | Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away. |
| 11/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, stage and film artist, member of Rajya Sabha and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, was born. |
| 6/2/1756 | Fort William, the English stronghold in Bengal, was surrendered to Siraj-ud-Daulah. |
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