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Historical Event on 5/1/1960
Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1952 | George VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom, died of lung cancer at the age of 56 (succeeded by daughter, Elizabeth II). In 1947, His title of Emperor of India was deleted. |
| 1/31/1997 | INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 10/10/1998 | Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand was sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
| 3/22/1793 | Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year. |
| 11/21/1914 | Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka. |
| 5/1/1926 | Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people. |
| 2/2/1915 | Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 2/6/1887 | Manabendra Nath Roy (his childhood name was Narendranath Bhattacharya), leftist thinker, great Indian politician and philosophist, was born at Arbelia village of 24-Parganas of West Bengal. He was the founder of 'Radical Democratic Party' after quitting Congress during World War II. |
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