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Historical Event on 1/31/1949
Maharajas of Baroda and Kolhapur decide to merge their states with Bombay.
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| 1/1/1995 | 8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai. |
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| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 6/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
| 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. |
| 5/12/1998 | Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT. |
| 10/15/1899 | Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born. |
| 2/17/1997 | Anand finishes sixth in the City of Linares category 19 chess where Kasparov makes in four-in-a-row. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
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