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🇮🇳 In India

1815 The Gorkha Regiment, considered the first and bravest battalion of the Indian Army, was formed by the East India Company.

1959 Jawaharlal Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie.

1972 Jamini Roy, Indian painter, Padma Bhushan awardee of 1954, died. He remains one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, another praised Indian artist and instructor.

1973 Sachin Tendulkar, former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team, was born. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

1973 Sachin Tendulkar, former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team, was born. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

🌎 Elsewhere

1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center, died in Frombork, Poland.

1543 Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician who proposed that the Sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun, died in Frombork, Poland.

1800 The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, was officially founded.

1830 Sarah Josepha Hale's poem Mary had a Little Lamb was published. It is one of the best-known English language nursery rhymes.

1967 Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die during a space mission when his spacecraft became entangled in its parachute during an attempted landing.

⭐ Significance

National Panchayati Raj Day, or National Local Self-Government day, is the national day of Panchayati Raj System in India celebrated by Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

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