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Historical Event on 6/26/1955
Poland and India affirm Panchsheel.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
2/13/1991 | Surjit Singh Barnala resigns as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
10/2/1955 | Nehru inaugurated an Integral Coach factory at Perambur. |
10/10/1937 | Anant Bhave, famous Marathi litterateur and news announcer on Doordarshan, was born. |
2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
7/24/1996 | Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs. |
11/1/1983 | Rajiv Gandhi, 48, who was chosen to succeed his assassinated mother, was sworn in as Prime Minister in New Delhi today. Across the Jamuna River, in a Sikh slum, evidence was found of the enormous political problems the new Prime Minister faced. The bodies of at least 95 Sikhs were discovered. The Indian army had also been ordered into nine other cities. Religious warfare between Sikhs and Hindus had claimed at least 1,000 lives since Indira Gandhi was assassinated. The security guards who killed her were both Sikhs. US Secretary of State George Shultz, who attended the funeral, assured the new Prime Minister of US interest in a ""strong and stable India."" US-Indian relations had been strained recently because of United States support for Pakistan. Shultz called for a ""renewed positive trend"" in re |
8/22/1915 | Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born. |
6/25/1993 | Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam. |
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