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Historical Event on 3/26/1931
New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
| 2/17/1976 | Urban Ceilings Act comes into force. |
| 8/18/1997 | Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched. |
| 4/26/1841 | Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk. |
| 4/16/1962 | Third Lok Sabha constituted after the third general election in India. J. L. Nehru forms the third Congress ministry. |
| 3/18/1896 | Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur. |
| 7/29/1987 | India and Sri Lanka sign peace accord at Colombo in a bid to end the 5-year old ethnic trouble. This stance taken thereafter by the LTTE added several dimensions to the scenario. It was a multi-purpose role that the Navy has been required to play. |
| 10/15/1992 | Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab. |
| 11/8/1831 | Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born. |
| 11/30/1994 | Laxmi Menon, former Foreign state minister, died. |
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