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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
8/9/1992Golden jubilee celebrations of the Quit India Movement begin in Bombay.
9/25/1999Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu.
10/6/1999The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu.
1/7/1990President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government.
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
2/6/1887Manabendra Nath Roy (his childhood name was Narendranath Bhattacharya), leftist thinker, great Indian politician and philosophist, was born at Arbelia village of 24-Parganas of West Bengal. He was the founder of 'Radical Democratic Party' after quitting Congress during World War II.
7/31/1985Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
6/21/1930Five hundred were hurt as police charged Bombay mob.
8/5/1950Gopinath Bardoloi, architect of modern Assam, freedom fighter and leader, passed away.