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Historical Event on 1/20/1817
Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1933 | The civil disobedience campaign ended. |
| 11/17/1921 | Princes of Wales came to India. |
| 1/19/1960 | Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away. |
| 9/25/1916 | Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, great litterateur, philosopher, social worker and first General Secretary of UP branch, was born at Dhankia village, Rajasthan. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 12/1/1955 | Nikita Khrushchev delivers speech condemning British colonialism. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory. |
| 6/13/1992 | Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached. |
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