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Historical Event on 8/15/1949
Chandernagore joins the Indian Union. Panchayati Raj inaugurated in 114,000 villages.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/9/1986 | ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India. |
| 8/8/1972 | Olympics open at Munich (26). |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 7/5/1916 | Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore. |
| 10/4/1974 | India in apartheid protest refuses to play South Africa in Davis Cup finals. |
| 9/27/1873 | Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat. |
| 2/19/1919 | Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born. |
| 11/19/1999 | New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
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