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Historical Event on 7/1/1961
Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1980 | Muhammad Rafi, famous playback singer, died at the age of 40. |
| 11/21/1963 | First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme. |
| 10/10/1906 | Narayan Rasipuram Krishnaswamy, great Indian writer, was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 1/19/2000 | Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship. |
| 3/11/1989 | In Bihar, a 13-member ministry headed by Satyendra Narain Sinha, MP, was sworn in. |
| 10/6/1999 | INLD-BJP combine wins by big margin in Haryana. |
| 9/30/1961 | Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/7/1905 | Six Language penel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note changed to Red with Special text mentioned, 'At any office of issue not situated in Burma'. |
| 6/5/1896 | Muhammad Ismail Sahib, president of the Madras State Muslim League and freedom fighter, was born at Pettai, Tamil Nadu. He was the member of Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha. |
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