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Historical Event on 1/1/1973

Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1956A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.
3/22/2000India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana.
6/19/1981APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.
7/1/1961Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal.
5/14/1657Dharmavir Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj was born on Purandar fort.
2/9/1993Silver prices crash as the govt allows passengers to import upto 100 k and reduces customs duty on 35 baggage items from 255 to 150 \%.
4/15/1984Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India.
4/1/1936Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar.
12/16/1971Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan.
9/7/1998Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.