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Historical Event on 4/1/1855

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/30/1834Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
7/26/1923Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born.
1/22/1945The Indian 7th Division captures Tilin at Burma.
12/6/1971US bars aid to India for aggression against Pakistan.
3/17/1769To establish the business of English Mill's Cloth, East Indiian Company had imposed various restriction on weavers of Bengal to destroy the Muslim and textile industry in Bengal , which was meant to destroy the Indian cloth and 'malmal' industry.
9/29/2000Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
8/11/1984A cloud of toxic chemicals escaped from a Union Carbide plant near Charleston, West Virginia, this morning, and at least 135 residents were treated for eye, throat, and lung irritation. Last December, methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in India, killing 2,000 people. No MIC escaped today, plant officials said. Aldicarb oxime, a much less toxic gas, is declared as one constituent of the gas cloud.
10/31/1997Balmiki Prasad Singh takes over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds K. Padmanabhaiah.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.