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Historical Event on 11/10/1901
Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1944 | Gandhiji was presented a purse of Rs 110 lakhs (£ 8,25,000) for Kasturba Memorial on his 75th birthday. |
| 1/30/1993 | Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 6/18/1991 | Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority. |
| 9/2/1993 | Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief. |
| 3/29/1942 | Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now. |
| 3/19/1973 | Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47. |
| 12/1/1974 | Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away. |
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