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Historical Event on 1/6/1947

All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/31/1995Bombay beat Punjab in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
1/16/1988L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died.
5/1/1922Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
2/25/1982J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away.
11/29/1644The Massachusetts General Court issued a call for local pastors to learn the dialects of neighboring Indian tribes as an aid toward converting them to the Christian faith.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
6/14/1991Punjab was declared ""disturbed area""; army deployed.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.