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Historical Event on 8/11/1956

The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1994Air India and Indian Airlines converted into companies.
3/1/1909First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.
2/5/1981Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75.
3/10/1940Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
1/19/1919Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
7/20/1829Jankibai passed away in jail.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
10/1/1854Babur's eldest son Humayun ascended the throne. He was, doubtless, a man of parts.