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Historical Event on 6/19/1949

People of Chandernagar, the French Indian Settlement, decided to merge with the Indian Union.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1713Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort.
3/31/1994The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
8/7/1990Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission.
9/18/1992Andhra government's order of setting up 12 private medical colleges quashed by a full bench of the High Court.
12/31/1965Sivaramakrishan Laxman, right-hand batsman and leg break bowler, was born in Madras.
9/2/1992Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away.
2/2/2000The Government decides to appoint former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah as the Chairman of the National Commission to review the Constitution.
9/25/1927Jagmohan Amirchand was born in Hafizabad (now in Pakistan).
9/25/1927Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe.