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Historical Event on 1/7/1993

The union govt. acquires 67.703 acres of land in and around the disputed area at Ayodhya and refers the issue to the Supreme Court.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1898The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India.
1/27/199455 miners, trapped inside New Kenda Colliery of Eastern Coal Fields, die.
3/19/1911Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"".
2/16/1982Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker and leader, passed away.
8/10/1894Varahagiri Venkata Giri, the fourth former President of India, was born at Berhampur in Orissa. He was one of the patriarchs of Trade Union Movement of India.
11/1/1956Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved.
3/25/1905Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born.
4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
3/5/1999Geet Sethi won the 1999 World matchplay billiards championship in Midsomer Norton.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.