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Historical Event on 1/1/1877

Queen Victoria was proclaimed as 'The Empress of India' in Delhi Darbar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/27/1992Sachin Tendulkar, 19 years and 22 days old, becomes the youngest cricketer to make 1,000 test runs while playing in Johannesburg.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
10/2/1971Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation.
2/1/1929Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born.
6/4/1926Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
1/1/1944Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, died.
10/29/1999The Anubhav Group chairman C. Natesan was arrested by the Mumbai Police on alleged charges of duping investors to the tune of Rs. 1.16 crore.