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Historical Event on 8/15/1947
The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.

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11/22/1993	Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna.
7/3/1991	Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996.
11/24/1941	Attack on Pearl Harbour.
6/4/1997	Defence Ministry denies Washington Post's report that India has deployed Prithvi missile on Punjab border with Pakistan.
5/1/1999	India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
5/5/1906	Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
12/10/1905	Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
8/13/1995	Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
4/15/1919	British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab.
12/29/1996	Trishul', surface-to-air missile successfully tested.

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Historical Event on 8/15/1947 The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.

Historical Event on 8/15/1947
The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.