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Historical Event on 5/1/1947

Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
2/11/1981Australia all out for 83 vs India at MCG. They were chasing 143 to win.
1/3/1995PM inaugurates 82nd Indian Science Congress at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
12/11/19676.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed.
9/21/2000J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.
9/21/2000The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East.
10/20/1919Chaitanyabala Divatia, great author, was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
1/10/1839Tea from India first arrives in UK.