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Historical Event on 2/1/1835
East India company obtained Darjeeling from the King of Sikkim.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/20/1928 | Narayan Guru ""Nanu"" of Kerala entered in maha Samadhi. His teachings are held in great reverence even today. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 4/6/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement. |
| 1/22/1997 | Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, former Union Ministers Ajit Singh, Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and five others chargesheeted by CBI in Rs. 3.5 crore Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MPs bribery case. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 1/21/1910 | Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, great industrialist, was born. |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 8/2/1877 | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, was born in Sagar, M.P. |
| 4/4/1786 | In British Parliament, Berk alleged 11 corruption charges against Indian Governor General Warren Hastings. |
| 6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
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