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Historical Event on 1/1/1976
Broadcasting of Commercial Advertisements on TV stations started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1918 | Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford. |
| 10/20/1905 | Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born. |
| 2/19/1992 | An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls. |
| 4/18/1926 | Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 7/23/1923 | Navinchandra Chimanlal Pandya, great educationist, was born at Prantij, Ahmedabad. |
| 1/3/1996 | Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order. |
| 9/30/1943 | Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died. |
| 1/1/1992 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"". |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
| 3/26/1980 | Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police). |
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