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Historical Event on 8/15/1949

Chandernagore joins the Indian Union. Panchayati Raj inaugurated in 114,000 villages.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/1/2000Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.
3/3/1707Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
7/27/1889Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji.
7/27/1889Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him.
9/26/1999Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science.
10/4/1953India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.
11/14/1995National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
7/15/1920Earthquake in Delhi.
3/22/1993The Lok Sabha passes the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 1993 and the Dentists (Amendment) Bill, 1993.
2/6/1995India and France decide to set up permanent Secretariat in Paris during the Indo-French Joint Business Council in Delhi.