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Historical Event on 1/1/1877
Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/19/1992 | K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India. |
| 11/2/1774 | Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 1/1/1980 | This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"". |
| 6/29/1991 | A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal. |
| 1/5/1995 | PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai. |
| 7/12/1996 | Lok Sabha adopts resolution extending President's Rule in J & K for 6 months. |
| 10/22/1680 | Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died. |
| 10/14/1947 | Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died. |
| 12/31/1999 | This Indian Railway, carries more than 11 million passengers in a day, runs on more than 62,000 route kilometers and more than 1,07,000 track kilometers daily. This is the largest Railway System under Single Management. |
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