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Historical Event on 1/24/1976
Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1932 | A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London. |
| 11/6/1985 | Sanjeev Kumar, film actor, died. |
| 12/19/1969 | Nayan Ramlal Mongia, cricketer (Indian Test batsman-wicketkeeper 1994- ), was born in Baroda. |
| 12/11/1992 | UP acquistion of land in Ayodhya quashed by Allahabad High Court. |
| 1/7/1994 | Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC. |
| 12/30/1993 | Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress. |
| 12/30/1993 | Guru Angad Dev, Sikh Guru, passed away. |
| 8/13/1997 | The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it. |
| 9/20/1933 | Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died. |
| 8/7/1941 | Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen, etc. |
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