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Historical Event on 11/1/1961
First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 9/12/1961 | Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died. |
| 7/5/1917 | 'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya. |
| 7/5/1917 | Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration. |
| 7/25/1988 | Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
| 7/17/1947 | Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives. |
| 11/18/1948 | Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna. |
| 4/18/1971 | Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay. |
| 10/19/1689 | Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals. |
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