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Historical Event on 1/25/1957
Kashmir becomes Indian state.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1810 | Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed. |
| 10/3/1890 | Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 7/24/2000 | S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad. |
| 7/24/2000 | Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 5/28/1903 | Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra). |
| 9/15/1927 | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born. |
| 8/6/1965 | Indian troops invade Pakistan. |
| 1/28/2000 | Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup. |
| 4/3/1926 | Muslim-Hindu riots destroy temples, killing 12, wounding 100 in Calcutta. |
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