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Historical Event on 4/5/1949

Indian Boy Scout and Girl Guide were established and renamed as Bharat Scouts and Guides.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/27/1974President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum and it was opened for public at Teen Murti House, New Delhi.
3/16/1993Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
2/23/1962Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.
7/21/1936Vasantrao Vishnu Limye, senior journalist and President of 'Ratnagiri District Parishad', was born.
1/25/1999Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
7/16/1993Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India.
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
6/22/1993Ordinance to amend Consumer Act was issued; Government doctors and hospitals were kept out of its ambit.