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Historical Event on 8/10/1948
Atomic Energy Commission established.
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| 5/20/1965 | Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit. |
| 5/19/1796 | Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds. |
| 6/15/1991 | General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won. |
| 6/17/1950 | Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 1/17/1993 | LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast. |
| 9/1/1896 | Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/3/1997 | Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds. |
| 7/5/1992 | Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories. |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 3/22/2000 | P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry. |
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