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Historical Event on 11/5/1961
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1961 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
| 12/21/1990 | Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively. |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 7/30/1622 | Tulsidas, devotee of God Rama Saint, great poet and writer of Ramayana, Hanuman chalisa and many many more, died. There are difference in dates 30/7 or 23/10/1623. |
| 1/1/1851 | Publication of Marathi newspaper 'Gyanoday'. |
| 4/24/1932 | 450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress. |
| 7/1/1941 | C. Y. Chintamani died. |
| 2/6/1959 | Ann Chandy was appointed the first Woman judge of Kerala High Court. In 1937, she became the 'munsif'. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
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