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Historical Event on 12/1/1963

Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/28/1972General Insurance Business was nationalised.
12/16/1994Pratap Singh Rane of Congress (I) takes oath of office.
11/5/1870Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
4/4/1999India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.
1/26/1919Mohammad Cazzambhoy Ibrahim Khan, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49), was born in Bombay.
1/27/1988The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
1/22/1993A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off.
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.