|
|
Historical Event on 8/15/1947
The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1979 | Perminder Singh Sangha, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway. |
| 10/12/1935 | Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 11/14/1957 | Children's Day. |
| 2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
| 10/25/1980 | Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died. |
| 9/21/1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
| 2/26/1858 | Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam). |
| 8/20/1991 | India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
