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Historical Event on 1/9/1664
Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
1/20/1949 | Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra. |
2/20/1976 | Production of Crude Oil started from offshore Bombay High near Mumbai. |
6/17/1903 | Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born. |
5/1/1913 | Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born. |
6/8/1998 | A Disaster Management Cell (DMC) under the direct command of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Air Command, was set up at the Command Operations Room to liaise with the State Government and initiate necessary actions. All aircrafts were evacuated from IAF bases at Jamnagar, Bhuj and Naliya and flown to pre-determined destinations. In this meticulously planned and smoothly executed drill, more than 60 aircrafts (including helicopters) were flown out. |
9/27/2000 | Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing. |
1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
3/8/1833 | Vishwanath Narayan Mandalik, famous journalist, writer and social reformer, was born. |
8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
6/25/1932 | India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England. |
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