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Historical Event on 1/16/1924
In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 1/19/1963 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away. |
| 5/5/1818 | Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
| 7/27/1994 | Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses. |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 1/29/1853 | Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 3/11/1881 | Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore. |
| 7/5/1917 | 'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya. |
| 10/1/1993 | The IAF joined in peace keeping duties in Somalia as part of the Indian contingent supporting UN operations. |
| 1/30/1903 | Lord Curzon opened the Imperial Library in in Metcalfe Hall at Calcutta. |
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