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Historical Event on 7/7/1948

Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/4/1973India's then biggest commercial ship merchant fleet 88,000 DWT super tanker ""Jawaharlal Nehru"" commenced its services for the Nation.
4/1/1976Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
9/29/2000Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari.
9/29/2000Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
10/29/1929Vyankat Chalaiyya Manipalli Narayan Chalaiyya, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
5/20/1776Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away.
9/7/2000The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999.
11/1/2000T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
10/1/1978In the Child Marriage Act, minimum age for marriage was raised to 21 year for males and 18 years for females.