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Historical Event on 10/30/1887

Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/26/1924Ramabai Ranade, social reformer, passed away. She played a major role in the upliftment of women in India and founded Sevasadan in Bombay, a hostel for the ladies.
4/5/1930Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi, a small costal village in Gujarat, after travelling 385 kms with 78 followers to break the recently imposed ""Salt Law"". This event is known as 'Dandi March' and was started from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
4/26/1926Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943).
6/2/1965The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India).
4/27/1993A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up.
10/26/1935Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
5/28/1930Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing.
9/1/1928Arun Kumar Seal, educationist, was born at Vishnupur.
9/11/1995PM Narsimha Rao inaugurated the State Panchayat minister's meet for discussing panchayat election, devolution of administrative and financial power to the local bodies.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.