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Historical Event on 1/1/1877

Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/17/1899First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
11/5/1929Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died.
12/15/1803East India Company captured Orrisa state.
6/30/1997Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives.
1/16/1818The Rana of Udaipur signed a treaty with the British to protect Mewad.
7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
4/25/1998The Government announces a new salary structure for university and college teachers, consequent to the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.
5/25/1996DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry.