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Historical Event on 1/15/1784
Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
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| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 8/5/1992 | The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there. |
| 2/28/1968 | International City Auroville inaugurated the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondechery. |
| 10/12/1952 | Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs New Zealand. |
| 11/15/1921 | 16 Gurkha troops killed by anti-British rebels. |
| 4/6/1997 | Gen. Kofi Annan,UN Secretary, arrives in New Delhi for NAM conference. |
| 1/23/1915 | Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 9/27/1907 | Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary, was born at Banga in West Punjab, Layalpur now in Pakistan. |
| 6/4/1953 | University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru. |
| 6/21/1906 | Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away. |
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