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Historical Event on 1/24/1976

Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/22/1789Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
3/10/2000Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister, submits his resignation without putting his motion of seeking a trust vote to test in the assembly. The RJD leader Rabri Devi meets the Governor and stakes claim to form the Government.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.
6/19/2000Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana.
10/21/2000Seema Antil becomes the first Indian ever to win a global title by bagging a gold medal in disc throw in the World Junior Athletic championship in Santiago.
10/20/1991Pandit Kalyandas Mahaprasad, famous Kathak dancer, died.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
3/13/1938Hitler merged Austria in Germany.
7/4/1729Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died.
9/21/1996Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again.