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Historical Event on 7/16/1954
French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1977 | World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 12/8/1900 | Udayshankar, famous dance master, was born. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 3/15/1831 | First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji. |
| 4/13/1994 | United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI. |
| 5/4/1832 | Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly. |
| 7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
| 7/6/1939 | Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore. |
| 1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
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