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Historical Event on 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.

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12/11/1926	Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
6/4/1903	Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban.
6/14/1929	Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
9/27/1974	Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born.
2/8/1936	Jawaharlal Nehru elected president of Indian National Congress.
6/12/1897	Possibly the most severe quake in history strikes Assam, shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (negligible death toll).
10/20/1991	Manohar Phalke, famous union leader and MLA, died.
10/29/1947	Mysore's popular ministry sworn in.
10/12/1907	Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
10/1/1967	Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established.

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