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Historical Event on 11/1/1967
Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/24/1951 | Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi. |
| 5/17/1865 | Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 11/3/1991 | India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested. |
| 8/15/1949 | Chandernagore joins the Indian Union. Panchayati Raj inaugurated in 114,000 villages. |
| 2/10/1930 | Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born. |
| 3/17/1995 | Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority. |
| 10/19/1974 | T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died. |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
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