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Historical Event on 8/1/1955

Arun Lal, cricketer (Indian batsman in sixteen Tests 1982-89), was born in Moradabad, U.P.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.
4/5/1961Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.
5/9/1996J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
2/23/1994India rebuts Pak charges on Kashmir in the 53-nation UN Commission on Human Rights.
1/19/1982Bombay High Court finds allegations against Chief Minister A. R. Antulay justified. Antulay resigns.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
10/1/1949'Marathi Rangbhumi' , a drama company, established.
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.