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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/31/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes. |
| 4/13/1982 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away. |
| 9/15/1927 | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born. |
| 9/28/1991 | Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 3/3/1934 | Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur. |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 1/11/1994 | Shankarrao Savekar, veteran cameraman of film industry, passed away. |
| 11/19/1999 | Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus. |
| 1/3/1880 | Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started. |
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