Date and Place - Indian Political Events

You are provided the date and location of occurence, you have to name the event that, nothing more nothing less. Keywords work, e.g. the event is Chandrayaan-3 Launch, simply "Chandrayaan" works if you type it in.

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26th January, 1950, New Delhi	Adoption of the Constitution, making India a Republic
3rd January, 1954, Mumbai	Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay is set up
20th October, 1962, Ladakh and the McMahon Line	Sino-Indian War begins
March, 1963, Punjab	The Green Revolution begins in India
9th June, 1964, Raisina Hill, New Delhi	Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru
24th January, 1966, Raisina Hill, New Delhi	Indira Gandhi becomes the 4th Prime Minister of India
12th November, 1969, Akbar Rd (Congress Headquarters), New Delhi	The Congress splits into O and R, under Desai and Indira Gandhi respectively
3 December, 1971, Ramna Race Course, Dakha	3rd Indo-Pak war. Ends with the formation of Bangladesh
18th May, 1974, Pokhran, Rajasthan	India tests its first major nuclear weapon in Pokhran, Rajasthan
21st May, 1987, Swiss Bank Accounts	It is revealed that bribes have been paid by Bofors to Indian politicians, members of the Congress party, and bureaucrats

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7th August, 1990, Mathura Rd, New Delhi	The Mandal Commission, a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward classes" of India, is implemented.
21st May, 1991, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu	Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by while campaigning in Tamil Nadu
6th December, 1992, Ayodhya, Uttarpradesh	The Babri Mosque demolition is conducted by Hindu extremists in Ayodhya which leads to over 10,000 people in the riots afterwards
3rd May, 26th July 1999, Line of Control, J & K	The Kargil War is was fought between India and Pakistan in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control.
7th January, 2002, Godhra, Gujarat	Riots occur after 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya are killed in a train fire supposedly set by Musilims in Godhra, Gujarat
26th November, 2008, Mumbai	Mumbai attacks take place in the Taj hotel
30th September, 2010, Mathura, Uttarpradesh	The long-running Ayodhya dispute is settled in the Allahabad High Court
26th May, 2014, Raisina Hill, New Delhi	Narendra Modi becomes the 14th Prime Minister of India
8th August, 2016, Across India	The largest tax reform in India's history, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), is introduced
22nd August, 2017, Mathura Rd, New Delhi	The Indian Supreme Court deems instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddah) unconstitutional

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