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Historical Event on 1/12/1953

Patel Chest Institute opened by Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. All India Khadi Board constituted with centre at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/14/1968Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died.
5/24/1933Hemchandra Tukaram Dani, cricketer (Test Ind vs Pak, 1-19, ct 1, DNB), was born in Dudhani, Maharashtra.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
4/21/1913Preview show of 'Raja Harishchandra' was held on April 21 at Olympia Cinema.
3/25/1987Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections .
6/1/1964Rashid Ghulam Muhammad Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, better known for Lamba incident), was born in Sabarkantha.
9/4/1929N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.
2/9/1898The Rower of Persia', a short film produced at Calcutta was released on February 9 at Star Theatre, Calcutta.
7/2/1993Delhi High Court stays the Lok Sabha Speaker's order disqualifying four Janata Dal MPs under the anti-defection law.
3/11/1997Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.