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Historical Event on 1/1/1948
Orissa High Court was established at Cuttack for Orissa territory.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1908 | Swami Ranga Natahananda, was born at Trikkur, Kerala. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 2/16/1997 | Tribal militants kill 21 persons in Tripura. |
| 11/2/1774 | Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 2/13/1936 | Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai. |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 2/28/1988 | Jaydev, famous music director, passed away. |
| 1/24/1995 | Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party. |
| 1/17/1999 | Madhya Pradesh won its maiden Wills Trophy championship, defeating Bengal in the final of the limited overs cricket championship in Calcutta. |
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