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Historical Event on 9/1/1947
Indian Standard Time was adopted.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 10/29/1971 | Cyclone and tidal waves struck Orissa state claiming 10,000 lives. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 4/16/1958 | Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore. |
| 3/31/1994 | The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal. |
| 1/30/1993 | Dr. Syvatoslav Roerich, 89, renowned painter and husband of film actress Devika Rani, passed away. |
| 3/30/1929 | Weekly postal service across 5,000-miles by aeroplane started between England and India serving India, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq in London. |
| 9/4/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
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