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Historical Event on 02/01/1290

Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.

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8/20/1993Mother Teresa hospitalized for malaria.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
1/14/1998Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
8/23/1995First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
11/14/1997Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
7/6/1942Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods.
3/31/1980Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary.
1/10/1979Anand Gopal Shauri, litterateur and journalist, passed away.