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Historical Event on 8/15/1772
Divani and Faujdary courts seperated by East India Company.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/7/1975 | Banke Bihar, mystery and religious story writer, passed away. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 12/11/1991 | Murali Manohar Joshi, BJP President, sets out on 'the Kanyakumari to Kashmir Ekta Yatra' (unity march). |
| 2/16/1998 | Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league encounter in Chennai comes to an abrupt halt with Delhi skipper and batsman Ajay Sharma sighting boot marks short of the good length area. |
| 7/12/1980 | Congress (I) gets absolute majority in Rajya Sabha. |
| 7/30/1957 | Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India was established through which exporting materials were insured. |
| 1/31/1995 | ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997). |
| 11/8/1965 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed. |
| 1/14/1994 | The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award). |
| 1/12/1757 | Captain Eyre Coote from the Portuguese was captured in Bandel. |
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