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Historical Event on 8/15/1947

The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.

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4/3/1992Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), was formed.
7/2/1905Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born.
11/30/1909Gandhiji reaches South Africa.
6/1/1904Four Language panel were used for Rangoon. This panel had languages namely Burmese, Urdu, Tamil and Chinese.
9/3/1953Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.
5/14/1996H.D. Deve Gowda elected leader of the third front as its prime ministerial candidate.
8/9/1963India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.
3/12/1992The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.
9/16/1997Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.