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Historical Event on 1/3/1836

Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/2000Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
1/26/1993Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest.
12/21/1952Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.
7/2/1941Muhammad Baqa Jilani, one Test for India, 0-55, died at the age of 29.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
9/24/1856Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away.
8/9/1996Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP.
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.