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Historical Event on 1/1/1967

Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/7/2000The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999.
5/14/1976Pakistan and India agree to resume diplomatic ties.
3/10/1940Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born.
2/14/1959Nehru tells the International Conference on Planned Parenthood that Indian family planning efforts have not stopped population growth.
10/19/1910Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
6/5/1981Gopal Saini at Tokyo sets record for 3000m ST. in 8,30.88.
11/17/1994North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
4/8/1994Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM.
11/29/1996Shaleem I. Shervani, Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare and President, ICMR Governing Body, was the Chief Guest at the concluding ceremony of the year long celebrations of the 85th year of ICMR at New Delhi. He released a special issue of the ICMR Bulletin on this occasion and presented momentos to the former Additional Directors-General and Directors-General of the ICMR.
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.