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Historical Event on 5/1/1960

Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/29/1920Jamia Milliya Islamia was founded by Dr. Jakir Husain and his collegues at Aligarh. 'Khilafat' and the Non- Cooperation Movement were an integral part of policy animating.
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5/5/1946Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous.
6/19/1981APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
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8/16/2000Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
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