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Historical Event on 1/29/1976
Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/24/1998 | Polling is held in 626 assembly constituencies spread over four States - Delhi, Madhya Prades, Mizoram and Rajasthan. |
| 11/17/1953 | Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/24/1997 | I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister, formally stated India's claim to permanent membership of Security Council at the U.N. General Assembly meeting. |
| 10/25/1989 | P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad. |
| 1/5/1955 | Kumari Mamata Promileswar Banerjee was born in Calcutta (West Bengal). |
| 1/23/1978 | The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions. |
| 12/23/1989 | V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990. |
| 9/6/1947 | Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees. |
| 4/23/1959 | Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma. |
| 10/16/1968 | Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene. |
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