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Historical Event on 1/1/1978
Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/27/1972 | V. S. Sarvate (Tatya Saheb), great revolutionary writer, passed away. |
| 9/30/1972 | Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir. |
| 11/1/1992 | Indirabai Khadilkar, famous singer, died. |
| 2/20/1863 | Pandit A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous Malyalam poet, grammer expert and Sanskrit expert, was born. |
| 5/25/1937 | Munshi Ajmeri passed away. |
| 9/25/1899 | Narhar Gangadhar Apte, great Hindi writer, was born at Satara. |
| 11/1/1973 | Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
| 4/11/1913 | Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh |
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