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Historical Event on 8/11/1961
Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 9/24/1931 | 19 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir. |
| 4/25/1993 | Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 10/26/1999 | India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| 6/23/1757 | The Battle of Plassey started between Robert Clive, incharge of British army, and Nawab of Bengal, Siraj -Ud -Daula. In this battle Robert Clive won control of Bengal. |
| 8/15/2000 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"". |
| 8/15/1965 | Television starts in New Delhi. |
| 1/6/1842 | 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul.. |
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