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Historical Event on 1/1/1877
Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 7/3/1985 | Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988. |
| 5/5/1989 | Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 2/2/1959 | Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party. |
| 2/2/1959 | Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab. |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/16/1969 | Morarji Desai resigns from cabinet. |
| 2/22/1913 | Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow. |
| 10/1/1997 | Bus with 70 people fell into a stream near Cuddappah. |
| 1/10/1897 | Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years. |
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