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Historical Event on 1/1/1976
Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 10/24/1955 | Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra. |
| 5/12/1937 | George VI is crowned. |
| 9/2/1993 | Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
| 10/14/1980 | S. N. Banerjee, cricketer--one Test for India and 249 runs 10th wkt stand on tour, died. |
| 6/16/1990 | GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 6/4/1993 | L K Advani unanimously elected President of BJP. |
| 3/9/1931 | Karansingh, politician, was born. |
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