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Historical Event on 2/22/1845
Serampore of Hooghly district and Balasore cities from Dutch purchased East Indian Company.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1991 | Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam. |
| 8/11/1893 | First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra. |
| 3/31/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born. |
| 9/20/1933 | Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died. |
| 9/13/1992 | Union government decides to form a National Human Rights Commission. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 8/3/1957 | Devdas Gandhi, son of Rashtrapita Mahatma Gandhiji and noted journalist, passed away. |
| 4/4/1942 | Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. |
| 8/1/1920 | Kirloskar, monthly magzine, was published. |
| 10/14/1994 | Setu Madhavrao Pagdi, researcher and historian, died. |
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