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Historical Event on 5/1/1948

Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1976Indian Airlines Caravelle crashed after take off from Bombay.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
8/15/1955Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa.
1/8/1992Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent.
9/27/1995Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi.
9/27/1995Turkish Armada retired.The arrival of a new Portuguese fleet.
11/27/1881Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
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