1877 - The first Delhi Durbar, also known as the Imperial Durbar, was held on 1st January 1877. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician, was born on 1st January.
1923- The Swaraj Party or the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party was formed on 1st January 1923 by Chittaranjan Das (C R Das) and Motilal Nehru. Chittaranjan Das had defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipur Bomb Conspiracy case. The Alipore Bomb case conspiracy, also known as the Manicktolla bomb conspiracy or Muraripukar conspiracy, was a criminal trial took place in 1908. C R Das had presided the annual session of the Indian National Congress in 1922.
1978 – On 1 January 1978, Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, killing all 213 people on board.
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