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Historical Event on 11/2/1956

Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
3/7/1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 test runs in cricket a match against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
1/5/1955Kumari Mamata Promileswar Banerjee was born in Calcutta (West Bengal).
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
6/7/1989Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years.
1/6/1947All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country.
12/22/1966U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).