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Historical Event on 1/26/1950

India is proclaimed a Sovereign Democratic Republic ceasing to be a British dominion and adopted Indian Constitution which came into force.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/18/1994India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington.
4/20/1971Air India started Boing 707 Jumbo Jet flight between Bombay and London.
7/26/1956Godavarish Mishra, famous Oriya poet, playwright and essay writer, died.
1/11/1975Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.
7/15/1902Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
11/6/2000Richa Mishra creates a national record in the women's 400m individual medley in 5.15.28sec in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.
9/8/1962Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration.
1/23/1999An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.
10/12/1961Sureshchandra Banerjee, great politician, died.