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Republic Day is a national holiday in India commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of India, and the country's transition to a republic which came into effect on 26 January 1950. The constitution replaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India, thus turning the nation from a dominion into a republic ...
The Constitution of India came into force, and India declared itself a Republic on 26 January 1950, a day thereafter celebrated annually as Republic Day in India. The Constitution had been drafted by the Constituent Assembly headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar which was set up when India gained its independence from the British in 1947.
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [2]
Not all of Glenn Close’s 2025 Golden Globes presentation speech was heard during the live CBS broadcast.. The actress, 77, was censored during the awards ceremony on Sunday, January 5, while ...
January 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM. Rich Polk/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty; CBS. Kathy Bates (left) and Anna Sawai ... 76, jokingly ripped up a piece of paper, seemingly a planned acceptance speech, ...
Among those planning to attend Budd’s speech are his wife and Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina in his second term. Budd’s first six months in office Vice President Kamala ...
The first Republic Day Parade was held on 26 January 1950, led by then Brigadier Moti Sagar of the Gorkha Regiment, during which the President of Indonesia Sukarno was the chief guest. The flypast of that parade included aircraft such as Harvards , Consolidated B-24 Liberators , Dakotas , Hawker Tempest , Spitfires and jet planes comprising a ...
But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 March on Washington.