| 1 | 8.7.1497 | Event | Vasco da Gama left Lisbon on his voyage of discovery to India |
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| 2 | 20.3.1602 | Event | The Dutch East India Company was founded |
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| 3 | 2.8.1858 | Event | The British government took over the East India Company |
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| 4 | 29.11.1864 | Event | 1,200 American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho indians who had surrended |
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| 5 | 2.10.1869 | Birthday | Mohandus K. Gandhi, Indian leader of 'passive' resistance |
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| 6 | 29.12.1890 | Event | The last ever battle between the Red Indians & US troops took place |
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| 7 | 17.2.1909 | Event | Geronimo, the American indian Apache leader, died |
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| 8 | 19.11.1917 | Birthday | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India; later assassinated |
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| 9 | 13.4.1919 | Event | The Amritsar Massacre took place in the Punjab, India |
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| 10 | 27.5.1930 | Event | There was widespread unrest in India as Gandhi was arrested |
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| 11 | 10.2.1931 | Event | New Delhi became the capital city of India |
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| 12 | 8.2.1932 | Birthday | John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones' |
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| 13 | 8.5.1933 | Event | Gandhi, in India, began a hunger strike in protest against the British |
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| 14 | 28.7.1936 | Birthday | Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer |
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| 15 | 12.9.1937 | Birthday | Wesley Hall, West Indian cricketer |
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| 16 | 13.7.1942 | Birthday | Harrison Ford, US film actor; 'Star Wars' & 'Indiana Jones' |
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| 17 | 20.2.1947 | Event | Lord Mountbatten was appointed viceroy of India |
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| 18 | 15.8.1947 | Event | India gained its independence from Britain |
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| 19 | 28.2.1948 | Event | The last British troops left India |
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| 20 | 26.1.1950 | Event | India became a democratic republic within the Commonwealth |
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| 21 | 16.6.1951 | Event | The People's Party was founded in India |
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| 22 | 24.5.1956 | Event | The 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha was celebrated in India |
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| 23 | 18.4.1958 | Birthday | Malcolm Marshall, West Indian cricketer |
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| 24 | 6.1.1959 | Birthday | Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer |
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| 25 | 6.2.1959 | Event | Indira Ghandi became the leader of India's Congress Party |
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| 26 | 20.1.1961 | Event | The Queen began a tour of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran |
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| 27 | 6.9.1965 | Event | India invaded West Pakistan |
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| 28 | 13.3.1967 | Event | Former West Indian cricketer Sir Frank Worrell died |
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| 29 | 12.3.1968 | Event | Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, was granted independence after 158 years of British rule |
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| 30 | 3.12.1971 | Event | Pakistan launched a war against India |
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| 31 | 25.2.1976 | Event | India announced plans to take action against parents who had more than two children |
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| 32 | 17.4.1983 | Event | India launched its first satellite |
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| 33 | 31.10.1984 | Event | In India, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was murdered by members of her bodyguard |
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| 34 | 22.5.1991 | Event | Rajiv Gandhi, the Indian president, was assassinated |
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| 35 | 3.2.1992 | Event | India's Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets |
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| 36 | 12.1.1993 | Event | Widespread violence and unrest continued in Bombay, India |
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| 37 | 23.2.1993 | Event | An estimated 27,000 Indians were arrested on the eve of a Hindu rally |
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| 38 | 30.9.1993 | Event | An earthquake struck Indian, leaving more than 150,000 homeless |
