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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
9/9/1947Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston.
3/3/1952The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.
5/13/1923Moinul Haque Choudhury, social reformer and politician, was born at Sonabarighat (Assam).
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
11/9/1904Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchanani
11/9/1904Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
2/14/1933W. R. Sonar, famous marathi poet, author, playwright, editor and publisher, was born.
5/17/1865Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born.
8/29/1880Madhav Shrihari Ane, greatest Freedom fighter, was born.