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Historical Event on 1/5/1957
Adintrim Sales Tax Act was introduced and the Central Sales Tax Act of 1956 came into force.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1835 | Medical College was started in Calcutta and it was officially opened on Feb 20. |
| 7/16/1917 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born. |
| 9/24/1859 | Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal. |
| 2/14/1996 | President dedicates 55,000-seated Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium at Kochi to the nation. |
| 9/25/2000 | A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985. |
| 2/8/1881 | Faiyaj Khan, famous Indian classical singer, was born. |
| 12/31/1706 | Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674. |
| 4/2/1980 | S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981. |
| 1/9/1841 | John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris. |
| 2/5/1991 | The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India. |
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