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Articles: News | Republic Day has come again!
- Mr. mohan Konneti
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Major Events over Years
1950 Jan 26
India shakes off British rule
1952 Feb 10
India passes first test of democracy
1959 Mar 31
Dalai Lama escapes to India
1962 Oct 11
Fighting along border between China and India
1964 Jan 03
Riots in Calcutta leave more than 100 dead
May 27
Light goes out in India as Nehru dies
1965 Aug 25
Second war with Pakistan begins over Kashmir
Sep 06
Indian Army invades West Pakistan
1966 Jan 11
Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies
Jan 19
Smt. Indira Gandhi takes charge in India
1971 Aug 09
India signs 20-year treaty of friendship with USSR
Dec 03
Pakistan intensifies air raids on India
Dec 17
India-Pakistan war ends with Pakistan capitulation
1974 May 18
India explodes first nuclear device in underground test
1975 Jun 12
Smt. Indira Gandhi found guilty of corruption
1977 Mar 22
Smt. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party loses general election
1978 Sep 04
Floods devastate northern India
1980 Jan 07
Smt. Indira Gandhi returned by landslide vote
1984 Jun 06
Troops raid Golden Temple in Amritsar
Oct 31
Indian Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi shot dead
Nov 01
Violence follows Smt. Indira Gandhi's killing
Dec 03
Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident.
Dec 29
Mr. Rajiv Gandhi wins landslide election victory.
1985 Jun 23
Air India jet crashes killing 329
1986 Feb 03
Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick
1990 Nov 07
Indian PM VP Singh resigns
1991 May 21
Bomb kills India's former leader Late Rajiv Gandhi
1992 Dec 06
Mob rips apart mosque in Ayodhya
1998 Mar 19
Hindu nationalist BJP party forms government
May 11
India explodes nuclear controversy
May 28
World fury at Pakistan's nuclear tests
1999 May 26
Brief war with Pakistan-backed forces in Indian-held Kashmir
Feb 21
India and Pakistan sign bilateral peace declaration
Oct 29
Super-cyclone wreaks havoc in India
2001 Jan 26
Earthquakes in Gujarat kill at least 30,000
Jul 16
First India-Pakistan summit in two years ends
Dec 13
Suicide attack on Indian parliament
2002 Feb 27
2,000 die as inter-communal violence flares in Gujarat
2003 Aug 25
Bombay rocked by twin car bombs
2004 May 13
Congress Party returns to power
Dec 26
Tsunami wave, which hit India for the first time today wreaked havoc across the southern coastline. The waves were caused by a massive earthquake on the Indian Ocean and claimed lakhs of lives in India and six other countries.
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