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Historical Event on 1/1/1976

Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1908Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise.
7/30/2000Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari adds a glorious chapter to Indian sports history at the Sydney International Convention Centre by becoming the first woman to gain an Olympic medal.
3/25/1983Modern oceanographic research ship of the world 'Sagar Kanya' landed first time in the sea.
3/25/1983Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India.
11/23/1919Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli.
7/12/1896Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
1/17/1987Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.