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Historical Event on 1/1/1664

Shivaji assumes royal title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
6/30/1997Gujarat floods claimed 170 lives.
1/2/1979Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
1/30/1971Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore.
1/27/1901Tarkatirtha Laxmanshastri Joshi, the great thinker, master of Sanskrit and editor of Marathi Vishwakosh, was born.
4/21/1720Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath passed away and was succeeded by his son Peshwa Baji Rao I. He was a great soldier and General.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
1/20/1993Karnataka ministry expanded to include 27 more members; S.M. Krishna made Dy. CM.