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Historical Event on 5/14/1956
Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1984 | Dozen's of Sikh Militants arrested in India's troubled Punjab State after terrorists killed 3 people and injured 31 in grenade attack. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President. |
| 1/1/1910 | Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.). |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
| 9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
| 11/5/1870 | Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
| 9/21/1895 | Annapurnanand, great writer, was born. |
| 6/20/1916 | Sreemati Nathibai Damodher Thackersey (SNDT) Indian Women' s University, first women's and the fifth Indian University, was established in Pune by D.K. Karve. |
| 8/27/1976 | Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters. |
| 5/2/1930 | Riots break out in Amritsar. |
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