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Historical Event on 5/1/1948
Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1957 | Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha. |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
| 12/19/1966 | Rajesh Kumar Chauhan, cricketer (Indian off-spinner since 1993), was born in Ranchi. |
| 10/6/1999 | Suraj Bhan sworn in Governor of Bihar. |
| 7/5/1882 | Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), classical singer and Muslim mystic, was born. He was instrumental in bringing Sufism to the music. |
| 7/8/1914 | Jyoti Basu, former Chief Minister of West Bengal, was born. |
| 9/18/1972 | Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%. |
| 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. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 4/23/1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
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