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Historical Event on 1/15/1949
General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
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| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 4/26/1995 | SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA). |
| 11/14/1955 | Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President. |
| 8/2/1935 | The British pass Govt. of India Act, separating Burma, Aden from India. |
| 2/13/1998 | India signs two agreements with the U.N. Development Fund for a $13.75-million grant for food security and environment support. |
| 12/22/1866 | Mazharul Haque, great social reformer, nationalist, journalist, poet, writer and politician, was born at Bahpura, Bihar. |
| 9/13/1984 | Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. |
| 8/2/1781 | Sakharambapu Bokeel, great politician in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 11/13/1970 | Flooding ravages Ganges delta. 200,000 million killed. |
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