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Historical Event on 11/1/1954
French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1997 | Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip. |
| 7/18/1993 | Rail, road traffic disrupted. |
| 11/16/1986 | Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore. |
| 8/17/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka. |
| 11/12/1896 | Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, explorer, ecologist, teacher, writer and bird watcher, was born. |
| 6/15/1986 | K. K. Tarapore, cricketer (Test for India 1948), was killed in a motor-scooter accident. |
| 6/30/1914 | Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa. |
| 3/25/1971 | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras. |
| 10/18/1995 | Punjab CM Harcharan Singh Brar inducts All India Youth Congress President Maninderjit Singh Bitta in to the cabinet. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
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