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Historical Event on 12/31/1600
Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.

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2/12/1995	Maramon Centenary Convention, (the biggest Christian gathering in Asia) begins in Kerala.
4/24/1980	Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
11/25/1948	National Cadet Corps was first established.
10/26/1961	Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
12/9/1942	Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis, doctor of international fame, died at Kokun village, China.
4/24/1944	Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away.
7/17/1979	Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
9/10/1918	Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
1/11/1996	Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi.
4/27/1994	Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.

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