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Historical Event on 12/31/1706
Francois Martin, founder of Pondicherry and was its first Governor General, died. He founded Pondicherry, the future capital of French India in 1674.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1957 | Kashmir becomes Indian state. |
| 3/31/1992 | Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue. |
| 5/20/1850 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born. |
| 3/9/1993 | AIADMK severs alliance with the Congress in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/12/1957 | Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan. |
| 4/15/1883 | Narhar Raghunath Phatak, famous journalist and historian, was born. |
| 12/13/1902 | Ilachandra Joshi, famous Hindi novelist, story writer, critic and journalist, was born. |
| 4/3/1984 | Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi. |
| 1/23/1920 | Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started. |
| 1/3/1880 | Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started. |
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