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Historical Event on 9/18/1615
Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1908 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 7/30/1997 | Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students. |
| 4/19/1981 | Indira Gandhi,Prime Minister, inaugurated `Maharashtra Vidhanbhavan'. |
| 3/25/1911 | L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay. |
| 3/7/1996 | Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians. |
| 6/28/1975 | Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions. |
| 6/5/1994 | Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72. |
| 5/30/1995 | Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
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