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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 |
| 1/24/1976 | Sun City India founded by Rao in Jodhpur. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 5/13/1998 | India carries out two more nuclear tests at Pokharan in Rajasthan. |
| 5/13/1998 | Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 4/15/1994 | India signed `GAT' agreement. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
| 2/8/1993 | India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi. |
| 9/12/1971 | Jaikishen, famous Hindi film music director, died. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
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