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Historical Event on 2/1/1969

Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
1/16/1948Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.
11/29/1962Haryana achieved their target of supplying electricity to 100\% villages.
8/18/1907Madam Bhikaji Cama, addressed the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart, Germany.
7/2/1972Shimla Treaty' was singed between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Pakistani counterpart Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
2/20/1947British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India.
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
8/8/1990Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation.
8/8/1990Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born.