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Historical Event on 5/1/1948

Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1873Mahatma Jyotirao Phule established the 'Satyashodhak Samaj'.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
9/5/1957Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.
12/30/1929The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London.
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
6/10/1946Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a ""victory of truth over false-hood"".
1/29/1948Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.