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Historical Event on 8/26/1947
Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1963 | Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India. |
| 7/12/1674 | Chhatrapati Shivaji signed a friendship treaty with East India Company. |
| 10/6/1983 | Punjab Government was dismissed to halt religious and political violence by Indira Gandhi, who imposed President's rule in the state. |
| 11/3/1961 | Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 8/16/1997 | Krishan Kant, Andhra Pradesh's Governor, elected as the Vice President of India. |
| 4/13/1772 | Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 9/8/1991 | Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam. |
| 1/4/1948 | Burma achieved its independence from Great Britain. In 1989, Burma changed its name to Myanmar to reflect the multi-ethnic composition of the country. Apart from the Burmese, the main ethnic minority groups are the Karen, Shan, Mon, Chin, and Kachin. Just as the Burmese did against the British, almost all of these ethnic groups have struggled against the Burmese government for self-determination. |
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