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Historical Event on 7/19/1965
Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/3/1950 | India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York. |
| 10/10/1996 | UP polls throw up a hung assembly. |
| 12/3/1955 | In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union. |
| 7/1/1879 | Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bangladesh and Chakma refugee leaders sign a historic agreement for repatriation of the 50,000 refugees sheltered in six camps in Tripura for the past 11 years. |
| 3/25/1933 | Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born. |
| 1/10/1920 | India became member of League of Nations. |
| 10/5/1993 | CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya case. Advani, Joshi and Bal Thackeray were among the accused. |
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