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Historical Event on 1/1/1880
Money order system was introduced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/27/1976 | Yashpal, modern hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 5/13/1949 | Maharashtra Granthalay Sangh was established. |
| 5/13/1949 | Affonso de Albuquerque wrote, ""My determination now is to prevent any Moor entering Goa, to leave a sufficient force of men and ships in the place, then with another fleet visit the Red sea and Ormu |
| 11/30/1909 | Ramesh Chandra died. |
| 2/18/1992 | Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab. |
| 6/13/2000 | Major General Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay appointed Chief Military observer of the U.N. Mission monitoring the LoC in Kashmir. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 2/3/1954 | Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi. |
| 3/13/1997 | Sister Nirmala Joshi, 63, is chosen to succeed Mother Teresa as the Superior-General of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 9/1/1962 | Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur. |
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