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Historical Event on 6/29/1757

Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.

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12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
11/24/1992Milan Kumar Banerjee appointed Attorney General.
11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
10/22/1908John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
4/20/1930The Viceroy imposes an ordinance for the suppression of terrorism, following a series of attacks.
6/1/1959N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party.
12/1/1964Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.