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Historical Event on 1/10/1839
Tea from India first arrives in UK.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/8/1948 | Air India International was established for overseas services. |
2/27/1956 | G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
3/27/1898 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of Modern India, passed away at Aligarh. |
4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
11/16/1989 | 66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued. |
12/22/1928 | An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.' |
10/26/1947 | After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously. |
2/26/1998 | Kalyan Singh wins the ''composite floor test'' in the Assembly, securing 225 votes against the 196 got by Jagadambika Pal. |
3/11/1863 | Maharaja Sayaji Rao III, great nationalist and social reformer, was born at Nasik. |
5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
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